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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to Laura

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Source Document

Description

Farnham writes from Camp Vermont near Fairfax Court House, Va. to his sister, Laura, of rebel threatening, of military action with the rebels, of Col. Stoughton's entry into the rebel camp, of wife Mary's reaction to gunfire, of Jackson and his 12,000 men on the march maybe to Harper's Ferry.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Marching
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military reconnaissance

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-04-28, 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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