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Item Description

Title: Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

Author

• Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866

Recipient

• Spafford, Mary Jane,

Source Document

Description

Writing from Camp New Fairfax topics include the sickness of two officers at camp, giving permission of sell his horse Jo back home, the 15th regiment out on Bull Run battlefield, the resignation of several officers including the Captain of K that has not yet been accepted but expected to be, living conditions better now that Commissary Sergeant is with them.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 15th (1862-1863)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-08-30, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Joseph Spafford Correspondence

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