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T.S. Hodgson Letter to Joseph Hodgson

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00616
Scope and Contents

Letter from T.S. Hodgson, a soldier from Company E, 105th Regiment,  Pennsylvania Volunteers,  to his uncle describing the town of Yorktown, Virginia during the Siege of Yorktown in the American Civil War. He described how he just go out of the hospital, firing shots against the rebels at the pickets, General McClellan as the head of the army, and not receiving a package from his uncle.

Dates: 1862 April 14

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  • Subject: Fort Monroe (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 X
  • Subject: Virginia--Description and travel X
  • Subject: Yorktown (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 X