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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to [Mary Farnham]

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Farnham, Mary

Source Document

Description

June 20, 1861. Topics include setting rumors straight. Farnham assures his wife that his chances of being killed are minimal. Notes that his provost marshal duties have lessened, possibly because fewer "negroes" are arriving, for fear that the North won't succeed! Reference to Dan Johnson and his rumors; also the secret why he returned home. Compliments for Capt. Andross, again, during Battle of Big (or Great) Bethel.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Fugitive slaves
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Big Bethel, Battle of, Va., 1861

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-10-18, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Roswell Farnham Correspondence

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