LETTERS HOME TO HIS FAMILY IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA FROM A YOUNG SOLDIER SERVING WITH COMPANY A, FIRST MONTANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1899

by Lemuel Frank Depew

$5,000 · Offered by Bartleby's Books · No longer available

various places, including San Francisco, Manila, Cavite, Malolos, etc. : May 1898 - Sept. 1899. A group of 31 letters home, in ink and pencil, most with accompanying envelopes, from Frank Depew, a young man just finishing high school in Great Falls, Montana, who volunteered to serve in the infantry at the commencement of the Spanish American War. Approx. 110 pages, some on Remember the Maine letterhead, all in a neat hand. The First Montana Volunteer Infantry mustered in in May 1898

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