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Item Description

Title: Mary E. Farnham to Henry

Author

• Farnham, Mary E.

Source Document

Description

Mary Farnham writes from near Fairfax Court House in Virginia to her brother, Henry, of soldiers being taken prisoners, of the wounded, of casualties, of checking rabbit traps for food. She mentions the weather, of her tour of camp, of sickness among the troops, of her excellent dinner at camp with Mrs. Blunt, Mrs. Stearns and others, and writes of family back home.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Prisoners of war

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-04-28, 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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