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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to [C. H.] Harding

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Harding, C. H.

Source Document

Description

Topics include arriving at Fort Monroe, just on the border of "the secession." Farnham briefly describes character of various officers: Capt. Andross, Col. Phelps, Lieut Stearns, and Lieut Peckett. Some discussion about how they spend their spare time. Description of overnight watch without shelter and being relieved the following morning. Other names: Col. Washburn, John Prichard, George Woods, George Flanders, Dan Flanders, Ben Underwood. Ships: Cumberland, Minnesota. Also: Scientific American.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Military camps -- Virginia
• Secession -- Southern States
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Secession -- Southern States

Subject/geographic

• 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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