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Item Description

Title: William C. Holbrook to Frederick Holbrook

Author

• Holbrook, William Cune, 1842-1904

Recipient

• Holbrook, Frederick

Source Document

Description

Topics include the Union gaining control of New Orleans, General Shepley becoming Military Commandant of the city, and the news that the Vermont Brigade has been gaining control on the Potomac. Evaluations of Generals Butler and Shepley. Also mentions the "contrabands" or slaves coming within Union lines. (Butler would later start recruiting African Americans to be Union soldiers.)

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/geographic

• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Subject/name

• Butler, (Benjamin Franklin)Mr, 1818-1893

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866)

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866).Company C

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Contraband of war
• Morale
• Slaves

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• William C. Holbrook Correspondence

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