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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to [Mary Farnham]

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Farnham, Mary

Source Document

Description

Farnham writes from nearby Hunting Creek, Virginia at the headquarters of the 12th Vermont Volunteers about the cold weather in the South, eleven sick in the hospital, two of which had shot themselves. Reference made to Gen. McClellan being superseded by Gen. Burnside.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• African Americans
• Diseases
• Families of military personnel
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military hospitals

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-04-28, 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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