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Encyclopedia Dubuque

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30 June 2023

  • 18:3618:36, 30 June 2023 diff hist +799 CIVIL WARNo edit summary
  • 18:2218:22, 30 June 2023 diff hist +3,611 N DEAD LETTER OFFICECreated page with "DEAD LETTER OFFICE. During the CIVIL WAR, hundreds of thousands of young men in uniform wrote letters to loved ones back home. Many of the soldiers, however, were poorly educated or had never addressed a letter. Undecipherable envelopes were collected and sent to the Dead Letter Office (DLO). In 1825, the Dead Letter Office (DLO) in Washington, D.C., had been established specifically to investigate undeliverable mail and make it possible to forward it to its intend..."

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