[Letter from Vanburen W. Sargent to Mr. and Mrs. Sargent, August 1863]

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Letter from Vanburen W. Sargent, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sargent discussing his deployment tomorrow morning to an unknown location. He says that they might be deployed to reinforce William Rosecrans Army of the Cumberland.

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Sargent, Vanburen W. 1863-08~.

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Letter from Vanburen W. Sargent, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sargent discussing his deployment tomorrow morning to an unknown location. He says that they might be deployed to reinforce William Rosecrans Army of the Cumberland.

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[2] p.

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Donated by Tom Busby to the McWhiney History Education Group, formerly known as the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation, the VanBuren Whipple Sargent Letter Collection is housed at McMurry University’s Jay-Rollins Library in Abilene, Texas. The collection is comprised of twenty letters written by V. W Sargent to his family while he was serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. Having enlisted in the army as a private in 1861, Sargent served in Company F, 27th Iowa Infantry until the end of the war.

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Transcript of letter from Vanburen W. Sargent, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sargent discussing his deployment tomorrow morning to an unknown location. He says that they might be deployed to reinforce William Rosecrans Army of the Cumberland.

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Sargent, Vanburen W. [Letter from Vanburen W. Sargent to Mr. and Mrs. Sargent, August 1863], letter, 1863-08~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1298034/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McWhiney History Education Group.

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