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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to [Mary Farnham]

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Recipient

• Farnham, Mary

Source Document

Description

Topics include the expected fight at Little Bethel and the battle at Great Bethel, where fewer than fifty men were killed on the Union side. Mentions German Regiment (Col. Bendix) and Duryea's Zouaves. Description of "friendly fire" incident. Excursion proved to be the most exhausting so far.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Friendly fire (Military science)
• Marching
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861)

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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