Civil War mail might mean a red-letter day

Q: Several generations back my family emigrated from Baden, Germany. Some members went to the U.S. and some came to Canada, but they kept in touch. These letters were sent from the field in Gettysburg. They're postmarked Washington so I always thought that they were probably delivered there first then distributed to the addressees. The letters are written in German and are very fragile. The envelopes are eight by 13 centimetres

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