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Item Description

Title: John Lester Barstow to Laura

Author

• Barstow, John Lester, 1832-1913

Source Document

Description

Topics include an overview of the daily schedule in camp, firing on Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philips by General Butler, General Phelps, and about 10,000 men that lasted for three days, and orders for the rest of the regiment to head for New Orleans.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Military camps -- Louisiana
• Ship Island (Miss.)

Subject/name

• Butler, (Benjamin Franklin)Mr, 1818-1893

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

Subject/geographic

• Fort Jackson (La.)
• Fort Saint Philip (La.)
• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-17, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• John Lester Barstow Correspondence

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