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Item Description

Title: Charles C. Canning to William Wirt Henry

Author

• Canning, Charles C., b. 1828

Recipient

• Henry, William Wirt,

Source Document

Description

Topics include the defeat of General Banks (Battle of Winchester, May 25) , the promotion of Lt. Col. Stannard, and the request to William Henry to raise a company so that Charles Canning may become a captain. Canning mentions orders from McClellan to prepare for "a bloody battle," but major fighting doesn't ensue until May 31st (Battle of Seven Pines, May 31), when Confederates take advantage of Union positions on the south side of the Chickahominy River.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-09-26, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• William Wirt Henry Correspondence

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