| dc.contributor.author |
Jenkins, John H. B. |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2018-11-02T18:26:52Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2018-11-02T18:26:52Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
1862-05-17 |
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| dc.identifier.citation |
Henry C. Hoar Memorial Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10288/25115 |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.subject |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Williamsburg, Battle of, Williamsburg, Va., 1862 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
James City County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 40th (1861-1865 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Fort Magruder (Va.) |
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| dc.title |
Letter, 1862 May 17, John H. B. Jenkins to Mary A. Benjamin |
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| dc.type.genre |
Letters (correspondence) |
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| dc.contributor.correspondent |
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| dc.identifier.collectionId |
SC 01283 |
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| dcterms.description |
Letter from J.H.B. Jenkins, Cumberland Landing on Pamunkey River, 12 Miles from West Point, Virginia, to Mary Benjamin, Smyrna, Delaware. Jenkins provides a Union soldier's (serving on the 40th New York regiment) description of the Battle of Williamsburg including sketches of the Federal battle position near Fort Magruder; the ineffectiveness of Austrian rifles; a drawing of wagons used by the confederate army; a description of Jamestown; the promotion of Philip Kearny; and the arrest of Thomas Washington Egan and Charles Smith Hamilton. |
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| dcterms.extent |
8 pages, 1 envelope |
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| dcterms.isPartOf |
Henry C. Hoar Memorial Collection |
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| dcterms.rights |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
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| dcterms.type |
Text |
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