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Gamaliel Lyman Dwight and Sarah Helen Whitman papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 01795
Content Description
The Gamaliel Lyman Dwight and Sarah Helen Whitman Papers contain three letters written by Gamaliel Lyman Dwight to Sarah Helen Whitman during the Civil War (1861-1865). In his first letter to Whitman, Dwight mentions a man who knew Edgar Allen Poe, a former romantic interest of Whitman. The remainder of the correspondence includes Dwight's impressions of Camp Winfield Scott, a tent encampment near Yorktown that served as the headquarters of Union General George B. McClellan.
Dates:
February 1862 - August 1863
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center