Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford
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Parent Collections - Vermonters in the Civil War
- Joseph Spafford Correspondence
Title - Joseph Spafford to Mary Jane Spafford
Creator - Spafford, Joseph, 1837-1866.
Date Created - 1862-12-18
Description - Writing from camp near Fairfax Court House, Virginia topics include a description of what picket duty entails, an account of the people Joseph Spafford met in Virginia including two families with very different attitudes towards the Northern soldiers. Writes of dining with one family who also had been given the responsibility of keep a dead Confederate officer in a metal lined coffin in their shed, of observing battle remains at the Bull Run site and of picking up bullets, etc from there, the ill health of Ed Hammond, the decision to remain at Camp Vermont and a brief reference to gunfire heard near Fredericksburg.
Subject - Military camps -- Virginia.
- Picketing.
- Battle casualties.
- Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862.
Extent - 6 pages
Note [Digital Version] - 2011-08-30, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
Genre - correspondence
Type of Resource - text
Publisher - Silver Special Collections, University of Vermont Libraries
Date Captured - 8/30/2011 6:45:34 PM
Access Conditions - Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to Vermont Historical Society Library, library@vermonthistory.org.
Access Conditions [Local] - No Copyright - United States
Identifier [Local] - cwvhsSpaffordJoseph64
Language - English
Language [Code] - eng
Digital Format - image/tiff
Digital Format - Text/Color: 24 bits; 300 ppi
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