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Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother

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Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
Date Created: 1862-04-01
Description: Topics include the route the regiment marched to arrive at camp near Newport News and a skirmish with the rebels coming down the river, firing at the coast.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence

Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother

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Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
Date Created: 1862-04-23
Description: Topics include a request for Wilder's mother to send him stamps, Wilder's predictions that he may never return home, and a description of the battle at Yorktown. Poignant thoughts about friends and loved ones near and far away.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence

[Frances] E. Carter to Grammama

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Creator: Carter, Frances E.
Date Created: 1862-07-31
Description: Wilder's niece writes a letter of condolence to her grandmother for his death.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence

Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams

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Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
Date Created: 1862-05-18
Description: Topics include the hard marching to a camp owned by the rebel Colonel Lee and requests for items to be sent from home.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams

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Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
Date Created: 1864-03-05
Description: Topics including marching out to support a cavalry raid on February 27, 1864 and returning to camp exhausted by the march through mud. He also writes about his wife, Mary Gorton Williams, hopes that his room would be empty when he returns from the army, so that he and Mary might live there. Requests postage stamps.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams

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Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
Date Created: 1864-03-20
Description: Topics include being on picket duty and receiving his letters through the kindness of Private Francis Phillips of Westford, who walked eight miles to bring them to him. He also writes of wishing to be home for sugaring season that he was chosen editor of the next paper the Sixth Regiment Debating Society.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams

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Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
Date Created: 1864-04-13
Description: Topics include letters he has received and news from his brother, Nathan, who is in Chicago serving in the Veteran Reserve Corps, a short list of what he has been doing, including attending a lyceum, news that Captain William B. Reynolds has been promoted to Major in the 17th Vermont Infantry Regiment, drilling practice, out of postage stamps and sends another one dollar to have some sent.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

William B. Reynolds to Lyman S. Williams

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Creator: Reynolds, William B., 1840-1864.
Date Created: 1864-07-17
Description: Letter to Williams from Major William B Reynolds regarding trouble about Lyman S. Williams‚Äô commission as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 6th Vermont Infantry Regiment, and whether he was properly mustered in. Reynolds also asks for news of Company I of the 6th Vermont, and writes that he feels ‚Äúheavy work is coming soon‚Äù. Major Reynolds was killed in action on July 30th, thirteen days after writing this letter.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams

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Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
Date Created: 1864-08-03
Description: Detailed list of the marches made by the 6th Vermont from July 12th through August 3rd. He also writes of visiting the burial ground of some of the soldiers from Company I at Camp Griffin and of visiting former members of Company I when in Washington D.C. siting several by name, of receiving photographs of his family, and of receiving his back pay as Sergeant but not as Lieutenant.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams

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Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
Date Created: 1865-06-16
Description: Writes of going & coming back from Washington, D.C. via horseback to purchase clothes and other articles needed, mustering out the men whose time is up in October, and his decision to remain in the Army for the extra money, since he feels everyone will be mustered out in August.
Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence

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