[smokelessjoe]

Scott, I will definitely send you what I have found... I wish I knew about your relative when I first started looking into Wingfield. I cannot find some of the stuff I had found when I first started - but I do have a few things....

Here is another letter from David Flanery... Talking about the Presidential results for Seymour & Grant. I really like the envelope "The United States Military Telegraph" - Neat thing is that I watched the new Lincoln movie and saw Lincoln at the telegraph office and had the same envelope!

Below also is a newspaper article about the election - I think it gives you a good idea of what was going on at the time of the election.

Also pictured is a transcription from the "The House of Representatives.Second Session of the Forty-Second Congress 1871" - apparently Flanery had written to the Louisiana Investigating Committee about Governor Warmoth and his illegal practice of selling dispatches... Sorry about the poor quality.

All of this stuff is so intriguing to me!