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Show WHO HAS ARMY ENVELOPES? few of These Reminders of the Civil War Are to Be Found To-Day. It would bo Interesting to know Just hc many varieties of Illustrated boI-dlcra' boI-dlcra' envelopes wore printed In the course of tho four-year war. It Is -aid there wero suvoral thousands of thnn. Uvory loyol stato wns prolific of local as well as general suggestlvo ideas for pictorial nnd typographical . xysesslon, nnd tho opportunity wns well Improved by manufacturers of and dealers In stationery. Unllko tho war songs of Uoot and other composers, com-posers, thlB "Union envelope" fad had an ephomernl existence. In Grand Army hnll and at Grand Army canipflres, nnd tho stage enactment enact-ment of civil war tlramau, almost everything olso Is seen In tho lino of reminders of tho days of 'Cl-S muskets, mus-kets, swords, bolts, knapsacks, haversacks, haver-sacks, canteens, tin dippers, belts, flags, etc. but the nrmy envelope Is not In evidence. And yot, oven at this Into day, thcro Is, it is snfo to opine, nmny a cnrefully treasured specimen I of tho oblong, Illustrated nnd Inscribed n;losuro of tho soldier hoy's letter from tho sceno of sufforlng, of strlfo nnd carna.io, which, it It could speak, might tell a story of sentimental and thrilling interest ono of tho tons of thousands ot unwritten romances ot nn heroic ttgo thnt has no peer In tbo nnnaln ot the camp and Held ot famous fa-mous military campaigns In tits old or Uii now world. |
