Folder 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Civil War Union Soldier's Letters
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Ms-1993-005
Scope and Content
Three letters from Washburn (last name unknown), a Union soldier in the 14th Massachusetts Battery in the Civil War, to his brother and mother. Washburn writes in April and May 1865 from various places in Virginia about rumors of the soldiers being mustered out of service, souvenir hunters buying up Confederate money, and the effects of the war on the town of Petersburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1865 - 1865
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech