Inventory of the Armistead Burwell Letter 1862
A Collection in the
Special Collections Research Center
Accession Number Mss. Acc. 2006.12
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
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Administrative Information
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Collection is open to all researchers.
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Preferred Citation
Armistead Burwell Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Scope and Contents
Letter, 23 January 1862, A. Burwell, Camp Curtis, Land's End Va. to brother. 4p. on 1 leaf. ; 25x20 cm. Concerns good news that brother is in winter quarters; thinks Charles should be discharged for disability; two companies of his regiment have been moved to redoubts and rifle pits across a strip of land between Lames and Warwick rivers; heard that Merrimac is completed; bill to re-organize Virginia forces; and says he is fighting for "liberty and country."
Index Terms
- Correspondence
- Confederate States of America--Army--Virginia Infantry Regiment, 14th--History.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.