William H. Whitney Civil War Letters, August 1864-September 1864

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William H. Whitney Civil War Letters, August 1864-September 1864

1864

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu02114.xml;query=;

This collection consists of five letters of Lt. William H. Whitney, Union officer, who wrote to his mother, Mrs. C.F. Whitney Russell, and a brother, Frank. E. Whitney, both of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, concerning camp life and skirmishes near Berryville, Virginia, in General Philip Sheridan's campaign in 1864.

This collection consist of five letters.

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University of Virginia. Library

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