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Item Description

Title: Frederick Holbrook to John Wolcott Phelps

Author

• Holbrook, Frederick

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

Topics include the President calling for 300,000 additional troops, the wish that the National Government will develop a decisive policy to "proclaim war to the knife," and a description of Frederick Holbrook's son Major Will. Holbrook continues to express his admiration for Phelps and offer him greater forces to command.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Recruiting and enlistment

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866)

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 7th (1862-1866).Company C

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

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
• John Wolcott Phelps Correspondence

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