Entitled: "Second Corps mail wagon, Brandy Station, Virginia. Mail was a treasured link between Civil War camps and battlefields and back home. Recognizing its importance to morale, the armies assigned personnel to collect, distribute, and deliver soldiers' mail; wagons and tents served as traveling Post Offices. The Confederacy established its own Post Office Department in February 1861, two months before the start of the war.

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American Civil War, Union Mail Wagon, 1864

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