Item Description

Title: Orlando S. Turner to Joseph and Louisa A. Turner

Author

• Turner, Orlando S., b. 1839

Recipient

• Turner, Louisa A.

Source Document

Description

Topics include a brief account of the first Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, Virginia. Writes of the bravery of the soldiers, casualties and men killed, of his opinion that the officers were afraid to go where the soldiers were, damage to the American flag.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
• Prisoners of war
• Armed Forces -- Officers

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Flags
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-12-07, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Civil War letters of Orlando S. Turner

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