Thursday, August 9, 2007

penny postcards



Chickamauga Battlefield as seen on a penny postcard.

These postcards cost 1 cent to mail until postage was raised to 2 cents from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World War I.

Chickamauga Battlefield today (click picture for full album):

Wilder Brigrade monument


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