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Item Description

Title: George W. Quimby to Mother

Author

• Quimby, George W., 1835-1862

Source Document

Description

Topics include the improvement of George W. Quimby’s health and a description of the heaps of dead, unburied Rebels on the battlefields. These were casualties of the Battle of Antietam Creek (Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1862), considered one of the bloodiest days of the war.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Marching
• Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-17, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• George W. Quimby Correspondence

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