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Item Description

Title: Charles F. Bancroft to Clarissa Bancroft

Author

• Bancroft, Charles F., 1835-1862

Recipient

• Bancroft,Clarissa E., 1843-1864

Source Document

Description

Topics include drills, a prediction that the fighting will end by June, and inquiries about home. In addition to myriad details regarding weather, food, and correspondence, Bancroft inserts thoughtful questions, e.g.: "Clara do folks in our neighborhood manifest much interest in my being out here? do they seem to care a great deal about it?" He also refers to the lull in fighting--and resulting boredom-- that precedes Lincoln's general order of Jan. 27 for federal armies to advance.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Families of military personnel
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Morale

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-31, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Charles F. Bancroft Correspondence

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