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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 his concern about anxiety at home after the Battle of Big Bethel; Farnham's desire to save his letters; domestic financial affairs; names of men in the hospital, and one death (Ph. Lougee); Maj. Worthen has a servant, a young black boy named Pompey Wind.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• African Americans
• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Big Bethel, Battle of, Va., 1861

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

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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