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Item Description

Title: Lyman S. Williams to Parents

Author

• Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905

Recipient

• Williams,Warren, Williams Caroline

Source Document

Description

Topics include a retreat to the James River (known later as a "great skedaddle," a word that Williams uses here but in the context of not being paid), a fight at Savage's Station, a review by General McClellan, and the men killed and wounded in the fight.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Battle casualties
• Military hospitals
• Savage's Station, Battle of, Va., 1862
• Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862

Subject/name

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-31, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

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