thanks to the folks at ancestry and national archives. it s released from 1805 and 1866 if you can decipher it, it s fascinating. in 1842 george pickett wrote, i m a young man, 19 years old, six feet tall and moderately good-looking. george a.custer would be described as the ohio congressman that nominated him, abe to perform with facility and ground rules of arithmetic. thomas a.jackson years before he became stone wall jackson, but we won t be seeing any of this if it wasn t for the hard work of the national archives. there are a lot of boxes. we have 80 million items.