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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to Laura

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Source Document

Description

Farnham writes to his sister, Laura, about the regiment moving to a new camp near Fairfax Courthouse (Fairfax, Virginia), the arrival of Mary Farnham and Mrs. Blunt, the movement of General Sigel and his 20 to 40,000 troops, and reference to the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Dec 11-15).

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Families of military personnel
• Marching
• Military camps -- Virginia

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-04-28, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Roswell Farnham Correspondence

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