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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

Writing to his father, Gov. Holbrook, from the steamer, Morning Sight near Vicksburg topics include asking if he can have a battery to command, mentions Fort Pike, the desire to join the artillery service, the hope to be given captaincy, and the slow bombardments by the rebels but there was an attack by 3000 Confederates thinking to board the Union mortar boats only to be beaten back when fired upon.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Skirmishing
• Steamboats

Subject/geographic

• Vicksburg (Miss.)
• Fort Pike (La.)

Subject/name

• Confederate States of AmericaArmy

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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