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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to Mary [Farnham]

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Farnham, Mary

Source Document

Description

Topics include the safety of the fort; definition of "columbiad" (delivers 10-inch cannonball); living arrangements (Willard Hotel); officers' food versus soldiers' food; daily drill and men's complaints; several lines about health concerns, children's health, not getting mail, and correct mailing address. Names: Pickett, John Prichard, Andross, Stearns, Charlie Peters, Mr. Batchelder, Woodstock Company.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Drill and minor tactics
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Morale
• Postal service

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

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

Subject/geographic

• Fort Monroe (Va.)

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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