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Anna Roberts, the widow of the Civil War veteran Samuel L. Roberts filled out this questionnaire to be able to receive pension after his death. She hired D. P. Blish, a pension claim agent to do the paperwork. Such documents are invaluable to the…

This lithograph comes from Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow's collection. Originally printed by the Puck magazine in 1884 and framed in Roberts's family in 1938, it alludes to the pre-Civil war debates on whether the North should continue to…