The Denues Family Papers contain documents related to the professional and military career of Charles Denues, as well as information about the Denues family. This collection also contains Civil War era items, including a $20 South Carolina note, and a presidential ticket from the 1864 election.
Admin/Biographical History
Charles Denues was born on 28 August 1923 in Shrewsbury Pennsylvania. He married Fannie Haines on 21 August 1859, and the couple had 8 children. Before enlisting to fight with the Union Army, Denues was a lawyer and a school teacher. In 1862 he enlisted, and became captain of the 135th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company E on 12 August 1862. On 24 May 1863 he was honorably discharged with the rest of his company.
Transom window from President Abraham Lincoln's funeral car. Frosted glass has wheel-engraved foliate design. Two hinges attached at one side of painted wood frame.
Carbon Print of Abraham Lincoln, showing head and shoulders in jacket and tie in sepia tones in an oval on a gold background (4 in x 5.5 in) bordered in black. Glass over print. One quarter inch frame with one sixteenth inch gold inner border; rest is a textured brown tape from front, around sides, and covering three eighths inches on back securing back, print and glass. A wire loop, top center is attached to a leaf-shaped fabric tag. Pasted to back is a paper strip: "Genuine Carbon Print, hand painted in Actual Metal Colors -- CARBON CLOISONNE. Will not tarnish nor fade: Price....."
