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Item Description

Title: Erastus Fairbanks to John Wolcott Phelps

Author

• Fairbanks, Erastus

Recipient

• Phelps, John Wolcott

Source Document

Description

Topics include the conduct of the 7th Vermont Regiment and the lack of newspaper coverage of the Regiment's positive attributes. The battles in Maryland would include Antietam Creek, one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Fairbanks also mentions a rumor of Phelps's resignation, which had indeed occurred in August, 1862. Some thoughts about slavery, government, and the Constitution.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Patriotism
• Slaves

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• United States -- 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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