University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives

Item Description

Title: William C. Holbrook to Frederick Holbrook

Author

• Holbrook, William Cune, 1842-1904

Recipient

• Holbrook, Frederick

Source Document

Description

Topics include working with the naval forces to occupy Fort Pike, La. which fell April 27, 1862. Holbrook describes the fort, the artillery left behind, and the process for allowing vessels to pass by this strategic entrance to Lake Pontchartrain, at New Orleans.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Capitulations, Military
• Intrenchments
• Military camps -- Louisiana

Subject/name

• Holbrook, Frederickt, 1813-1909

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866)

Subject/geographic

• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Ship Island (Miss.)
• Fort Pike (La.)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• William C. Holbrook Correspondence

Access Conditions

Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu. For more information, see http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights.
More information.