Alonzo G. Conant papers
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- Title:
- Alonzo G. Conant papers
- Date:
- 1861
- Creator:
- Conant, Alonzo G.
- Description:
- Letter to Julia L. Cutler written during Conant's boat trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The author comments on the countryside; religion; Union camp life and habits; Confederate pride; his personal relationship with Miss Cutler; and a meeting between Confederate Colonel Benjamin Humphries and Union General Charles Pomeroy Stone. Conant also mentions "Union rebels" and their slaves on the Maryland shore.
- Location:
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.)
- Subject:
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- Love-letters -- 19th century
- Soldiers -- Religious life -- United States
- Soldiers -- Religious life -- Confederate States of America
- Soldiers -- United States -- Conduct of life
- Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Conduct of life
- Slaveholders -- Maryland
- Humphreys, Benjamin Grubb, 1808-1882
- Stone, Chas. P. (Charles Pomeroy), 1824-1887
- United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps
- United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 12th.
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) -- Description and travel
- Format:
- correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digital Collection:
- Alonzo G. Conant papers
- Provenance:
- Purchase 1979
- Rights:
- Free Re-UseNo Copyright - United States
- Identifier:
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- RL.30595
- 001530412
- duke:620665
- secst0594
- ark:/87924/r4c828c45
- 83bca8de-15e4-466c-a763-1fe90ed8addc
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- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4c828c45
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