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Item Description

Title: Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

Author

• Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866

Recipient

• Spafford, Mary Jane

Source Document

Description

Writing from Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C. topics include the probability of a military discharge, hospital nurses, unhealthiness of hospitals, liking his living situation in the barracks, and fiddle playing and dancing heard coming from a nearby house.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Families of military personnel
• Military hospitals
• Military discharge

Subject/name

• Carver General Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Joseph Spafford Correspondence

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