Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters
National Postal Museum

Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters

October 7, 1862

paper; ink
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

On this single sheet of paper, Private David Walters wrote to his wife Rachel that, "So you need not rite any more as I will be there at farthast against the election day" because the Indiana state election was scheduled for October 14, 1862.

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