From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 5/25/1869, p. 3, c. 1

The President yesterday received by mail from New York, neatly engrossed on parchment, a copy of a series of resolutions passed at a recent meeting of the 79th Regiment (Highlanders, National Guard) New York State Militia, tendering their thanks for the President’s acknowledgment of the services of Miss Elizabeth Van Lew, of Richmond, in ministering to the necessities and comfort of the officers and men of our army who, while prisoners of war during the Rebellion, were confined in the Libby and other prisons. The officers and men of this regiment were specially gratified at the appointment of Miss Van Lew as Postmistress of Richmond.

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