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Item Description

Title: Letter to John Wolcott Phelps

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

Holbrook waxes eloquent in his call for a "'Great Awakening' at Washington" and a greater awareness of how "our present severe training" will make the nation stronger; but the federal government needs to take the war seriously in order to have victory. Accordingly, Holbrook supports Lincoln's call for 300,000 additional troops, but suggests that a million men in arms would bring success. Intuits correctly that Phelps's "Dark Brigade" (black troops) would not be allowed to bear arms.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• African American soldiers
• Draft -- United States
• Patriotism
• Recruiting and enlistment

Subject/geographic

• United States -- 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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