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Item Description

Title: William Wirt Henry to John Henry

Author

• Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915

Recipient

• Henry, Mary Jane,

Source Document

Description

Writing from Camp Chase, Va. topics include the death of Henry's sister Katie and the journey to Camp from Brattleboro, aboard the train to New Haven, on the steamer Continental to New York, on to Philadelphia and then to Baltimore and finally Washington, D.C. and on to his camp just beyond Fairfax, Va.under the command of Brig. Gen. Briggs of MA

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Families of military personnel
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-09-26, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• William Wirt Henry Correspondence

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