Marshall Phillips on West Point battle, 1862
Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Pvt. Marshall S. Phillips of the 5th Maine Regiment wrote to his wife, Diana, in Auburn, about the battle at West Point, Virginia, noting, "I think our Company was placed in the most dangerous posision that they have ever been placed in since we have been in the survice."
Phillips enlisted in 1861 and served until the end of the war.
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