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Item Description

Title: William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry

Author

• Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915

Recipient

• Henry, Mary Jane,

Source Document

Description

Topics include a travel route planned to return home via Annapolis, Brattleboro and maybe even Burlington, the capture of 18 Rebel prisoners near Fairfax, and the hope of one of the wounded prisoners, a Virginian, to retake the oath to become a citizen of the United States again, reference to a Flag of Truce to send a letter to the Confederate Army, his side business doing poorly as the men have expected orders to move and the Sutlers not buying for the same reason.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Prisoners of war
• Sutlers
• Military deserters

Subject/name

• Confederate States of AmericaArmy

• United StatesArmy

  -- Flags

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Flags

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-09-26, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• William Wirt Henry Correspondence

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