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Item Description

Title: Warren E. Bliss to Smiley Bancroft

Author

• Bliss, Warren E., 1840-1930

Recipient

• Bancroft,Smiley, 1808-1874

Source Document

Description

Topics include moving to camp near the Chickahominy, anticipation of a battle at Richmond, the capture of Fort Darling, a description of the Battle of Fair Oaks, and the death of Charles Bancroft. Topics include moving to camp near the Chickahominy, anticipation of a battle at Richmond, the capture of Fort Darling, a description of the Battle of Fair Oaks, and the death of Charles Bancroft. Use of hot air balloons in reconnaissance is mentioned, as is the observation that many plantations are deserted by their owners and run by slaves, Gen. McClellan threatened to turn every "White House" (plantation) into a hospital.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Battle casualties
• Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862
• Freedmen
• Military hospitals
• Picketing
• Sutlers

Subject/name

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-31, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Charles F. Bancroft Correspondence

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