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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to Laura

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Source Document

Description

Topics include two Louisiana Zouaves who were brought in by Col. Hawkins, accounts of their desertion and capture, rumors of an advancing Confederate force, and the anticipation of an enemy attack that never occurs. .

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• African Americans
• Desertion, Military
• Intrenchments
• Prisoners of war

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Brigade, 1st (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-10-18, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Roswell Farnham Correspondence

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