This receipt was made out and signed by Frank T. Sands, who operated a funeral parlor in Washington DC during the Civil War. Sands became famous for having served as the undertaker for William Wallace (“Willie”) Lincoln and then later for President Abraham Lincoln. This particular receipt, dated 17 November 1862, was for the reinterment of 20 year-old Charles A. Wood, a corporal in Co. K, 9th New Hampshire Infantry, who died of typhoid fever at the Union Hotel in Washington D. C. on 12 November 1862. After exhumation, Wood’s remains were placed in a zinc-lined box and sent by Harding’s Express to Conway, New Hampshire, where they were reinterred in the Conway Village Cemetery. According to his headstone, Charles was the son of Horace P. and Belinda C. Wood.

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