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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to [Mary Farnham]

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Farnham, Mary

Source Document

Description

Topics include: gratitude among the men for gifts of food (incl. maple sugar) and other "luxuries"; Major Worthen's scouting expedition, which led to a small skirmish and some casualties among some St. Albans and Swanton soldiers; press inaccuracies; life at camp; how he misses his books and reading; other domestic matters.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Drill and minor tactics
• Homesickness
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

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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