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Rufus Robbins letters

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Letters, April-August 1862, from Rufus Robbins (1828-1863) of Company K, 7th Massachusetts Infantry, to his parents and brother in South Abington, Massachusetts, detailing his and his regiment's participation in General George McClellan's (1826-1885) Peninsula campaign and the Seven Days' Battles, as well as the return to Yorktown, Virginia, after the campaign's failure. Robbins provides details about his daily life as a soldier
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Rufus Robbins letters, 1862
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Rufus Robbins letters
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1862
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Letters, April-August 1862, from Rufus Robbins (1828-1863) of Company K, 7th Massachusetts Infantry, to his parents and brother in South Abington, Massachusetts, detailing his and his regiment's participation in General George McClellan's (1826-1885) Peninsula campaign and the Seven Days' Battles, as well as the return to Yorktown, Virginia, after the campaign's failure. Robbins provides details about his daily life as a soldier
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Through ordinary eyes : the Civil War correspondence of Rufus Robbins, private, 7th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, edited with an introduction by Ella Jane Bruen and Brian M. Fitzgibbons, 2000 (E513 7th R63 2000)
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Rufus Robbins was born 20 May 1828 in South Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, to Rufus Robbins (1804-1877) and Alice Soule Robbins (1809-1885). A shoemaker before the Civil War, he enlisted in Company K, 7th Massachusetts Regiment as a private on 15 June 1861. Robbins served with his regiment until 16 November 1862, when he was sent to a hospital in Washington D.C. due to illness. He later was transferred to a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, arriving there 19 December. Robbins died in Philadelphia 7 January 1863. He was buried in High Street Cemetery in South Abington (now Whitman, Massachusetts).
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