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The collection is open to research.
Some of the collection has been digitized and is available online .
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Henry C. Carpenter Letters, Ms1996-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Henry C. Carpenter Letters were donated to Special Collections in May 1996.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Henry C. Carpenter Letters commenced and was completed in June 1996.
Henry C. Carpenter was born in Bland County, Virginia. He served as a Corporal in Company H, 45th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. He participated in the Battle of Cloyd's Farm in May 1864, and died on October 6, 1864, in Woodstock, Virginia.
The collection consists of letters from Henry C. Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia; Monroe County, West Virginia; Saltville, Virginia; and Harrisonburg, Virginia. Also includes one letter to Elizabeth from Newton Thompson, written from Alderson's Ferry, Virginia, on June 4, 1863.
The collection is arranged chronologically.
The guide to the Henry C. Carpenter Letters by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).