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Item Description

Title: Benjamin F. Parmenter to Brother

Author

• Parmenter, Benjamin F., 1832-1896

Source Document

Description

Topics include the policy of the war department to not allow anyone to go home regardless of their circumstances,enquiries about home, Parmenter's growing disillusion with the Army, and a discussion about "the Southern confederacy is a fixed fact."

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Morale
• Secession -- Southern States

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-12-07, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Correspondence of Benjamin F. Parmenter

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