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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 description of Fort Monroe, including "the big gun" and other armaments; overnight guard duty; being outside the fortress walls; staying in local hotel; good weather, food; low anxiety. Names: John Stearns, John Prichard, David Johnson; Laura, Ezekiel. Ships: Alabama.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/geographic

• Fort Monroe (Va.)
• Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Subject/name

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

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

Subject/topic

• Morale
• Postal service

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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