William Winship Civil War letters, 1862-1863.

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Winship, William L., 1844-1915. William Winship Civil War letters, 1862-1863.

William Winship Civil War letters, 1862-1863.

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Letters to his mother in Farmington, Connecticut, from various locations in the south, fragment of a diary (March-May 1863) on paper from "a secesh house," and two discharge papers. Winship, an unmarried farmer, enlisted on 8 September 1862. A member of the Twenty-Fifth Connecticut Infantry, Company K, Winship was mustered-in on 11 November 1862. He was mustered-out of his nine-months unit on 26 August 1863. According to his 1863 discharge papers, Winship was 19-years-old, had a light complexion, blue eyes and brown hair.

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