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Item Description

Title: Henry A. Smith to Family

Author

• Smith, Henry A., d. 1864

Recipient

• ,

Source Document

Description

From Snickers Ferry on the Shenandoah River topics include news from Richmond, rumor that Stonewall Jackson was killed, having enough to eat including local peaches & cherries found in Virginia, horses well fed, men on picket duty, newspaper report that General McClellan taken prisoner along with 40,000 of his men, and Henry Smith's homesickness.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Homesickness
• Prisoners of war
• Horses

Subject/name

• Confederate States of AmericaArmy

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-12-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Henry A. Smith Correspondence

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