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Item Description

Title: Frederick Holbrook to John Wolcott Phelps

Author

• Holbrook, Frederick

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

Upbeat letter delivered to Gen. Phelps by the writer's son, William C. Holbrook, who apparently turned down an offer to join Phelps's staff. The writer, Gov. Holbrook, lavishes praise on Vermont officers and soldiers (including his son), and sends warm wishes for success to Phelps, sharing his conviction that "the Union Cause must triumph." Holbrook concludes with some reflections on the difficulty of being a wartime governor.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers

Subject/name

• Butler, (Benjamin Franklin)Mr, 1818-1893

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866)

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866).Company C

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

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

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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