Charles Brigham Stoddard letter book, 1862-1865.

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Charles Brigham Stoddard letter book, 1862-1865.

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Autograph letters, signed, chiefly from Stoddard to his aunt and father, Isaac Nelson Stoddard, dated at various army camps in Louisiana and New York; with a few letters to Stoddard from Harvard classmates, dated at Cambridge, 1862; bound in an album. Letters primarily concern matters relating to Stoddard's service in the Civil War, with accounts of skirmishes and camp movement. He also gives an account of a pleasure trip to New Orleans, and there is frequent mention of the 1863 draft. A letter from Edward D. Boit, Jr. (A. B. 1863), dated at Cambridge 7 Apr. 1862, concerns Stoddard being elected to honorary membership in the Hasty Pudding Club.

2 volumes (.3 linear ft.)

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