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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 Camp Seward near Alexandria, Virginia, topics include a copy of Joseph Spafford’s accounts of camp life from October 24th until November 9th, 1862 with a note that he burns the letters he receives. Writes about tents, gunfire heard from a battle a distance away, on leave to visit Washington, D.C., liking his boy Daniel McAuliffe age 13 and wanting to take him with him to Vermont when the 9 months are up.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Military camps -- Virginia
• Children and war

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1863)

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-08-30, 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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