Letter to mother and brother, 1861 December 6.

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Letter to mother and brother, 1861 December 6.

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Frisbie briefly notes picket and guard duty, Thanksgiving dinner, illness and death in the regiment, and cost of food, boots and gloves, and requests for cheese, butter and sugar. He comments on the "darkies" in camp, noting "Got one to work a cooking that ran away from his master in mariland & i ges they are used prety bad for I have seen the scars & ridges on his back where he had beed whipted & his legs are very crooked by pooting to much load on his back when he was young."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Frisbie, Mrs., fl. 1861,

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United States. Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865)

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Frisbie, Gilbert, fl. 1861,

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Frisbie, John H., fl. 1861.

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Private, Co. H., 3rd Vermont Volunteers. From the description of Letter to mother and brother, 1861 December 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49788555 ...