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Item Description

Title: Henry A. Smith to Family

Author

• Smith, Henry A., d. 1864

Recipient

• ,

Source Document

Description

Topics include the journey from Harpers Ferry to Newmarket, reference to General Banks division, detailed description of the suicide of Major Colins' Colonel, Michigan Calvary refusing to obey orders to charge the enemy, the Calvary rode away, mention of Lieut Col Kellogg and a Col Ashby, an encounter with the rebels that resulted in three rebel deaths and two rebel prisoners, getting pay.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Battle casualties
• Marching
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military pay

Subject/name

• Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-12-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Henry A. Smith Correspondence

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