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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas J. Jennings Letters, #3719-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1965.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Durfee, Maria B.
• Hampton (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Jennings, Thomas J., fl. 1862-1863.
• New Bern (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Description and travel.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.

Thomas J. Jennings (fl. 1862-1863) of Fall River, Mass., was a federal soldier serving in a regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers at Hampton, Va., April 1862, and at New Bern, N.C., February-June 1863.

The collection includes detailed letters from Thomas J. Jennings to Maria B. Durfee, Fall River, Mass. The letters include discussions of events in the New Bern area, daily life in camp at New Bern, and excursions Jennings took in the surrounding area. The letters also mention General J. G. Foster, the defeated war ships Cumberland and Congress, and other soldiers and officers.