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Item Description

Title: Lyman S. Williams to Warren Williams

Author

• Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905

Recipient

• Williams,Warren

Source Document

Description

Topics include Lyman Williams coming down with a fever, an encounter with the rebels that left four men wounded, and the rebels' description of the Vermont regiment as dare devils. Stationery has an illustration of a "Vermont Boy," plus two verses of a song with the title "Vermont Soldier." The refrain, "Away down in Dixie," suggests an attempt to compete with the immortal southern song "Dixie."

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Diseases
• Morale
• Peninsular Campaign, 1862
• Skirmishing

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1864)

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care

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
• Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

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