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Burke, Florence to Ellen Burke, 1864 January-June

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5-20
Identifier: MS2018_023_99051
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
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Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: 1864 January-June

Burke, Ellen to Florence Burke, 1864 April-May

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2-4
Identifier: MS2018_023_99052
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
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Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: 1864 April-May

Deed for purchase of land in Springfield, Massachusetts, March 1860, certified copy, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: MS2018_023_99152
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
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Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: undated

Brown, Charles and Joseph Bell Alexander to Ellen Burke, 1864 September 22

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS2018_023_99156
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
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Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: 1864 September 22

Florence Burke in Union Army uniform, 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: MS2018_023_99157
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: 1864

Florence Burke (right), his brother John (middle), and an unidentified man in New York, probably 1848

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: MS2018_023_99158
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: probably 1848

Unidentified child, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: MS2018_023_99159
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence between Florence Burke and his wife Ellen while he was serving as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Also included is a letter from Charles Brown and Joseph Bell Alexander, of Brown & Alexander, Embalming Surgeons, regarding the cost of exhuming Burke’s body from its initial burial place in Virginia. Additionally, the collection contains three tintypes, two of which are images of Burke, and a copy of a deed for his purchase of some...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research; digital version also available.

Dates: undated