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Title: Erastus Fairbanks to John Wolcott Phelps and [Daniel] Roberts to Erastus Fairbanks

Author

• Fairbanks, Erastus

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

First letter is from Governor Erastus Fairbanks writing from St Johnsbury, Vt. Topic includes scandalous reports of officers in the 1st Regiment regarding the neglect of sick soldiers by the surgeon and assistant surgeon in military hospital. Second letter to the Gov. from Danl. Roberts writes of the sources of the reports and that the matter requires investigation.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Military hospitals
• Armies -- Medical and sanitary affairs

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Surgeons

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-11-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• John Wolcott Phelps Correspondence

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