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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 movement of the regiment to Harrison's Landing, the extensive loss in the 5th Vermont Regiment (Battle of Savage's Station, June 29, 1862), the arrest of Captain Eaton, and a request for a few goods from home.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Battle casualties
• Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States
• Morale
• Prisoners of war
• Soldiers -- Alcohol use

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 5th (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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