Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow Discusses The Civil War Documents

Title

Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow Discusses The Civil War Documents

Subject

Civil War

Description

Bill Hays shared Samuel L. Roberts's Civil War documents with UNL History Harvest graduate student assistant Leslie Working. The documents are from the collection of Roberts' granddaughters, Grace Emmet and Mary Ann Hessenflow.

 

 

The collection includes a POW parole and exchange certificate, an application for pension, two certificates of discharge, a letter from a Civil War battlefield, and Major General W.T. Sherman's Farewell Address to His Army. You can watch this and other stories on the History Harvest YouTube Channel.

Source

Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Date

2010-09-12

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Format

story

Language

English

Type

video

Files

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Citation

“Grace Emmett and Mary Ann Hessenflow Discusses The Civil War Documents,” History Harvest, accessed March 29, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/181.

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