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Item Description

Title: Roswell Farnham to Laura

Author

• Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903

Source Document

Description

July 31, 1861. Topics include a description of Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort in reference to the letter head picture, of the Hygeia Hotel currently be used as a hospital, of the houses once occupied by Southerners now housing officers of the army, of a minor attack by the Rebels upon picket guard but none hit, a captain in the 1st N.Y. Regiment shooting one of his men believed to be drunk.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/geographic

• Fort Monroe (Va.)

Subject/topic

• Soldiers -- Alcohol use
• Military camps -- Virginia

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-10-18, 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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