Contributed by Maine Historical Society
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Pvt. Marshall Phillips of Co. K of the 5th Maine Regiment wrote from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, to his wife, Diana in Auburn about the recent campaign.
He said that since May 4, the regiment had lost half of its members to death or injury.
He wrote, "Lee has intrenched himself in and around Spotsylvania Court House it seems as if this is to be a continued campain untill our time expirs it looks hard."
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About This Item
- Title: Marshall Phillips from Spotsylvania, 1864
- Creator: Marshall S. Phillips
- Creation Date: 1864-05-21
- Subject Date: 1864
- Location: VA
- Media: Pencil on paper
- Dimensions: 20.5 cm x 12.7 cm
- Local Code: Coll. S-166, Misc. Box 6/7
- Collection: Marshall S. Phillips correspondence
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Letters
- Phillips family
- Phillips, Diannah--Correspondence
- Phillips, Marshall S., b. ca. 1822--Correspondence
- Shoemakers--Maine--Auburn
- Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
- United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1864)
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