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Item Description

Title: Frederick Holbrook to John Wolcott Phelps

Author

• Holbrook, Frederick

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

Topics include Mrs. Holbrook requesting General Phelps to forward her letters to her son and Frederick Holbrook inquiring after the sick men and the number of surgeons. Holbrook expresses frustration that the Vt. Regiments (7th & 8th) are still not under Phelps's command, per an agreement with Gen. Butler. Holbrook also mentions Phelps's "Dark Brigade," black troops that Phelps recruited in Louisiana without permission from the War Dept. (Phelps resigned in Aug., 1862.)

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• African American soldiers
• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Surgery, Military

Subject/name

• Butler, (Benjamin Franklin)Mr, 1818-1893

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866)

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866).Company C

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-11-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• John Wolcott Phelps Correspondence

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