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Item Description

Title: Henry A. Smith to Family

Author

• Smith, Henry A., d. 1864

Recipient

• ,

Source Document

Description

Topics include General Banks' Division falling back to Strasburgh, the frequent skirmishes with Ashbys Cavalry, an account of a man in Company I who shot a rebel, Smith's hand wounded by a fellow soldier playing carelessly with a sabre, men eating well, mention of Oliver Cushman of Hartland who was promoted to second Lieutenant, reference to military pay.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Guerrilla warfare
• Promotions, Military
• Prisoners of war
• Military pay
• Skirmishing

Subject/name

• Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-12-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Henry A. Smith Correspondence

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