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James R. Woodworth (1838-1864) was a young farmer in Seneca Falls, New York, when the Civil War began. He joined Company E of the 44th New York Infantry Regiment, serving in the Army of the Potomac from 1862 through 1864. An intelligent, sensitive man, Woodworth recorded his war experiences in diaries and in a series of letters to his wife Phoebe. Woodworth saw action at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; he died at Laurel Hill, May 8, 1864, a casualty of the bloody battle of the Wilderness.
Papers of James R. Woodworth, Civil War soldier, collected by his great-grand-nephew Lawrence E. Hotchkiss.
The collection contains 120 letters from Woodworth to his wife, October, 1862ŠApril, 1864, and four diaries, of the same period, 436 pp. Both letters and diaries describe the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
Lawrence E. Hotchkiss
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