Wilbur Fisk Letters, 1862-1865

The Letters of Wilbur Fisk (Transcripts) series consists of transcribed Civil War dispatches by Wilbur Fisk. Wilbur was a soldier with the Second Vermont Regiment. Almost all of his letters are addressed to "Editor Freeman," entitled "A Soldier's Letter," and numbered, and were published either in whole or in edited form as a series in the Daily Green Mountain Freeman, published in Montpelier, Vermont from 1862-1865. The series follows the "Anti-Rebel," as Wilbur signed them, from Virginia through the Chesapeake Bay into New York and back, in and out of the hospital, and on and off the battlefield.  There are one hundred letters in the series with a few more unnumbered letters to "Editor Freeman" or "Brother Webster". The letters, written virtually weekly, give a fascinating view of the Civil War from the Northern perspective.