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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to [C. H.] Harding

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Harding, C. H.

Source Document

Description

Topics include recollection of the Battle of Great Bethel, especially of Maj. Winthrop, who died in battle. Further critique of newspaper accounts; mentions the number of runaway slaves he has to account for. Farnham also states that mail delivery from Vt. to Va. takes only two days!

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Fugitive slaves

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861)

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-10-18, 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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