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Item Description

Title: William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry

Author

• Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915

Recipient

• Henry, John,

Source Document

Description

Topics include William Henry missing his wife, having gained weight and health is good, of being glad he did not become the Captain of Company D, reference to a bill to disband the Bands, mentions his side business of selling to the men being pretty slim as he has "got them most all cured up", reference to the fall of Roanoke Island, North Carolina (February 7& 8, 1862) under the leadership of Ambrose Burnside, has sent money home,

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Love-letters
• Medicine, Military
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Roanoke Island (N.C.) -- History -- Capture, 1862

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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