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Item Description

Title: Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey

Author

• Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898

Recipient

• Veazey, Julia A.,

Source Document

Description

Writing from the field 26 miles from Richmond, Virginia topics include a description of camp at Cumberland Landing on the Pamunkey River (tributary of the York River in eastern Virginia), the White House Farm estate, restrictions of the soldiers to respect and not touch anything belonging to the house or grounds, the expectation of a battle at the Chickahominy Swamp, reference to Gen. McClellan and his divisions, praise from confederates prisoners of the excellence of the Vermont 3rd and the hope for a victory near Richmond.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• Veazey, Wheelock G. (Wheelock Graves), 1835-1898

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-08-16, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence

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