Item Description

Title: Charles Dillingham to William Wirt Henry

Author

• Dillingham, Charles, b. 1837

Recipient

• Henry, William Wirt

Source Document

Description

Writes of wishing to be sent food such as dried beef, cheese, pickles, maple sugar, crackers. Mentions Bush Hill, camping in rainy weather with everything they had being wet, brigade review by General Smith, discontent among the officers. In need of recruits.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Recruiting and enlistment

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-02-04, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• William Wirt Henry family papers

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