Willard S. Woodis letters, 1861-1862 [manuscript].

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Willard S. Woodis letters, 1861-1862 [manuscript].

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Letters from Willard S. Woodis to his sister Catherine, written while he was serving with the U.S. Army in Virginia, 1861-1862. Woodis was in charge of a wagon and team of horses traveling from place to place in Virginia and was on the battlefields or close to them during engagements. He wrote vivid accounts of the scenes around him, including a letter from Camp Homes, Halls Hill, Va. (near Washington, D.C.), telling of picket duty near Fairfax; one from Camp Willson, Halls Hill, Va., telling of a terrible storm; one from Halls Hill, Va., describing several months in the coastal part of Virginia, a series of rapid moves, an assignment at the Manassas battlefield, and a difficult trip northwards from Manassas; and one from near Sharpsburg commenting on the miseries of war and Woodis's admiration for Gen. George McClellan.

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