brief furlough

Posted on April 26, 2014 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in April 1864:

AT HOME. – Lieut. WM. VAN RENSSELEAR of the 50th Engineer Regiment, is at home on a brief furlough.

William V. Rensselear

William V. Rensselear

Brandy Station, Virginia. View of the camp of the 50th New York Engineers from the northwest (by Timothy H. O'Sullivan; April 1864; LOC: LC-DIG-cwpb-00731)

50th New York Engineers’ camp at Brandy Station, April 1864

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