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Item Description

Title: Ira A. Marshall to William Wirt Henry

Author

• Marshall, Ira A., d. 1893

Recipient

• Henry, William Wirt,

Source Document

Description

Topics include camping at Harrison's Landing, Virginia on the James River, makes reference to regiments and companies losing men, the names of men wounded and their injuries in Company D, makes reference to a battle (maybe Battle of Seven Pines [Fair Oaks]??), several officers resigning, the high cost of food, and the slight sickness of Ira Marshall.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Battle casualties
• Diseases
• Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Prisoners of war

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Subject/geographic

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

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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