Item Description

Title: Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe

Author

• White, Daniel S., 1837-1912

Recipient

• Howe, Maria E.

Source Document

Description

Topics include the witnessing of a hanging execution of a man from the New Hampshire 2nd Regiment who had killed an innocent woman (wife of a rebel soldier), his reaction to the hanging, of military tactics to deter the rebels advance, of breakfast awaiting consisting of fried pork bread and coffee.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Executions and executioners
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military discipline

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Atrocities

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
• Daniel S. White Civil War letters

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