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Item Description

Title: Henry A. Smith to Family

Author

• Smith, Henry A., d. 1864

Recipient

• ,

Source Document

Description

Topics include the arrival of the package from home that had includes apples and chicken but those were eaten by Jarvis Wentworth, pictures of relatives received, admiration of his new boots, Henry Smith's friend Fenney hoping to become his brother-in-law, and the death of a boy names Henry Holt of Hartland, gives advice on how to best care for a horse.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Horses
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-12-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Henry A. Smith Correspondence

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