Title:: Armistead Burwell Letter 1862

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Armistead Burwell Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.00
Creator:
Burwell, Armistead, b. 1811 arrangement
Abstract:
Letter, 23 January 1862, A. Burwell, Camp Curtis, Land's End Va. to brother. 4p. on 1 leaf. ; 25x20 cm. Concerns good news that brother is in winter quarters; thinks Charles should be discharged for disability; two companies of his regiment have been moved to redoubts and rifle pits across a strip of land between Lames and Warwick rivers; heard that Merrimac is completed; bill to re-organize Virginia forces; and says he is fighting for "liberty and country."
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Armistead Burwell Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Letter, 23 January 1862, A. Burwell, Camp Curtis, Land's End Va. to brother. 4p. on 1 leaf. ; 25x20 cm. Concerns good news that brother is in winter quarters; thinks Charles should be discharged for disability; two companies of his regiment have been moved to redoubts and rifle pits across a strip of land between Lames and Warwick rivers; heard that Merrimac is completed; bill to re-organize Virginia forces; and says he is fighting for "liberty and country."