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Item Description

Title: Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother

Author

• Wilder, Henry Harrison

Source Document

Description

Topics include a request for Wilder's mother to send him stamps, Wilder's predictions that he may never return home, and a description of the battle at Yorktown. Poignant thoughts about friends and loved ones near and far away.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Morale
• Postal service
• War -- Psychological aspects

Subject/geographic

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

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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