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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Aaron B. Tompkins correspondence, 1863-1864</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Tompkins, Aaron B.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
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  <abstract>Letters written by Tompkins to his mother and sister while serving in the 1st New Jersey Cavalry Regiment in Virginia and Maryland during the Civil War.  Mentions George Armstrong Custer and John Singleton Mosby and skirmishes around Warrenton, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Typewritten transcripts of the letters are also available.</note>
  <note>Soldier.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Custer, George A. (George Armstrong)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1876</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mosby, John Singleton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1916</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>New Jersey Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Petersburg (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Richmond (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Warrenton (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Soldiers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79006045</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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