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Item Description

Title: Joseph Spafford to Marianne Spafford

Author

• Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866

Recipient

• Spafford, Marianne,

Source Document

Description

Writing from Camp Vermont, topics include a copy of Joseph Spafford’s accounts of camp life from November 10th until November 24th written on stationery with a beautiful color illustration of Richmond, Virginia. Mentions the orphan boys wanting to go along with the soldiers have run away.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Military camps -- Virginia
• Children and war

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1863)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-08-30, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Joseph Spafford Correspondence

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