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Item Description

Title: George W. Quimby to Emeline B. Masta

Author

• Quimby, George W., 1835-1862

Recipient

• Masta, Emeline B.

Source Document

Description

Topics include the anticipation of marching to Alexandria in just over a week’s time, the resignation of Captain Tucker, and the promotion of George W. Quimby to captaincy. Mentions the slow moving Grand Army of the Potomac and the feeling that it may never see any fighting.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

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

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-17, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• George W. Quimby Correspondence

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