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Item Description

Title: A. [G.] Browne to John Wolcott Phelps

Author

• Browne, A. G.

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

Topics include Lt. Col. A. G. Browne requesting Brig. Gen. John Wolcott Phelps' assistance in forwarding letters to Lieutenant Charles L. Pierson, Adjutant of the Massachusetts 20th Regiment who was taken prisoner along with Colonel Lee and Major Revere. Mentions Col. Lee and Major Revere, the battle of the 21st near Leesburg and flags of truce.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Prisoners of war

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-11-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• John Wolcott Phelps Correspondence

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