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Item Description

Title: Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother

Author

• Wilder, Henry Harrison

Source Document

Description

Wilder's location is titled "Sesesh Church," in Alexandria. "Sesesh," Wilder's phonetic spelling of "secesh," or "secessionist," suggests that the members of the church were Confederate sympathizers. Mentions Gen. George B. McClellan (recently relieved of his supreme command but still in charge of the Army of the Potomac) and the beginnings of the Peninsula Campaign, which involved patrolling the James and York rivers. Wilder expresses determination to fight for the Union cause.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/name

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

Subject/topic

• Marching
• Operational rations (Military supplies)

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-11-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence

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