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Item Description

Title: George W. Quimby to Emeline B. Masta

Author

• Quimby, George W., 1835-1862

Recipient

• Masta, Emeline B.

Source Document

Description

Topics include the terrible weather at Camp Griffin, Va. and the numerous deaths from sicknesses such as Typhoid Fever. "Smith's Division" refers to the Vt. 5th Infantry Regiment under the command of Gen. William F. "Baldy" Smith.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Morale
• Picketing

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military reconnaissance

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-17, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• George W. Quimby Correspondence

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