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Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1861-12-15
Description: Topics include winter quarters in a pine woods, officers to have log cabins, he using the Captain's tent with plenty of bed clothes, inquiries about home, seeks opinion of the war from home, sending hard crackers home, poor writing ink.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford papers

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1862-01-15
Description: Written to his sister from his camp in Virginia, topics include description of a large foraging expedition, getting mumps, and rumors about Captain Henry B. Atherton.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1862-03-30
Description: Still writing from the Mansion House Hospital, topics include listening to the rattling of the soldiers' swords as they pass on the sidewalk outside the hospital, commenting on the number of regiments going down the river, and news of home.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1862-04-20
Description: Writing from the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia a very brief note to his sister of leaving for Washington and not for her to write to him again at this address.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1862-04-27
Description: Writing from Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C. topics include the probability of a military discharge, hospital nurses, unhealthiness of hospitals, liking his living situation in the barracks, and fiddle playing and dancing heard coming from a nearby house.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1862-05-06
Description: Writing his sister from Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C. topics include worry about not receiving letters from home and his general good health.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: [1862]-10-24
Description: Writing from Brattleboro topics include George deciding to joint the regiment, Joseph Spafford receiving his payment, and the mustering of the regiment.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1862-10-26
Description: Writing en route, topics include a description of the journey to Washington on the ‚ÄúElm City‚Äù train, his deep desire for letters from home and an undercurrent of his willingness to accept how things are.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1863-01-18
Description: Considers the possibility of bringing home a Southern woman after the war, asks how family thinks about that, indifferent about having family send a box of goods as he is living well, if he needs money he may borrow from another man, the improvement in George‚Äôs health, the need for a new drum major, and teases his sister Sophia about having a Southern woman as a sister-in-law.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford

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Creator: Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created: 1863-02-21
Description: Topics include how often to write, of not getting a letter Mary Jane says she wrote, the snowy and rainy weather, Williams and the Captains poor health, a trip to Washington, Joseph‚Äôs clothing, the resignation of the 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, and Joseph‚Äôs good health.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Spafford Correspondence

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