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Oliver H. Sargent Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 00336
Scope and Contents
Letter from Oliver H. Sargent in Yorktown Plains, Virginia to a friend, Hoyt, regarding a battle during the opening seige of Yorktown in which his unit, the 22nd Massachusetts participated. The collection includes a cabinet photograph of Oliver Sargent in uniform. Sargent was possibly killed in action by a Confederate landmine, one of the first Union soldiers to be killed in that manner.
Dates:
1862 April 20
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center