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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to Mary [Farnham]

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Farnham, Mary

Source Document

Description

Topics include the movement from Hampton to Newport News, Virginia, the beginning of the first entrenchment at Camp Butler, some details about camp dentistry, and the appointment of John Wolcott Phelps as Brigadier General. Mentions Vt. military units: Northfield Co., Bradford Guards, Vt. Regiment ; a Virginia unit: Old Dominion Dragoons (ODD) ; ships: Catalina, Monticello ; and a newspaper (Vt.?): "the Telegraph."

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Intrenchments
• Medicine, Military
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Morale
• Operational rations (Military supplies)
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/geographic

• Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-10-18, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Roswell Farnham Correspondence

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