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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to Friends

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Source Document

Description

Writing from his Virgina camp Griffin, Towle gives a description of a Battalion Drill and the ill health effects on the soldiers, of a gale storm damaging tents and overturning an ambulance with a sick soldier inside. He writes of orders from General McClellan to be ready to move, and states men are sick and death count to date for his regiment is 66.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Drill and minor tactics
• Military camps -- Virginia
• War casualties

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

• McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-06, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Ransom W. Towle Correspondence

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