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Item Description

Title: Joseph Spafford to Homer White

Author

• Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866

Recipient

• White, Homer

Source Document

Description

Spafford writes to his friend Homer on topics including Typhoid Fever in the Regiment, friendship, camp life, Hancock’s Brigade [Winfield Scott Hancock], and answering his friend’s questions about joining the Regiment and fear of dying.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Morale
• Recruiting and enlistment
• War casualties
• Homesickness

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

• Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Joseph Spafford Correspondence

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