urn:taro:utexas.cah.02132 A Guide to the George Q. French Letters, 1861-1863 Original EAD encoding by Bethany Anderson according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. December 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary French, George Q., 1838-1862 French, George Q., Letters 1861-1863 Materials are written in English. 64-80 2 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Consisting of correspondence and manuscripts, the George Q. French Letters, 1861-1863, document French’s experiences in Company E of the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Biographical Note

Born in Cambridge, Vermont, George Quincy French (1838-1862), was one of seven children of Mark French (b. 1808) and Mary Lyon. As a young man, French participated in the Free Soil Movement in Kansas, returning to Vermont in 1860. During the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry of the United States Army, serving as a corporal in Company E. French died in a hospital at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on November 4, 1862, and is interred in the Baltimore National Cemetery.

Source:

Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.

 Scope and Contents

Consisting of correspondence and manuscripts, the George Q. French Letters, 1861-1863, document French’s experiences in Company E of the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The letters concern the Potomac Peninsular campaign and other military activities. Additionally, the collection includes genealogical documents pertaining to the French family, as well as letters regarding French’s illness, and his hospitalization and death in Baltimore.

 Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) French, George Q., 1838-1862--Archives Subjects (Organizations) United States. Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865) Subjects Peninsular campaign, 1862--Sources Places Baltimore (Md.)--History--19th century United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Union Preferred Citation

George Q. French Letters, 1861-1863, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Processing Information

This collection was processed by by Chester V. Kielman, April 1964.

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2K305 Correspondence and genealogical documents, 1861-1863