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Item Description

Title: Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney

Author

• Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889

Recipient

• Barney,Maria, 1833-1884

Source Document

Description

Topics include the continued improvement of Barney’s health, having his attendant return to camp, his thinking of applying for a furlough to return home when he feels stronger, his outrage at the government for the continued poor living conditions for the men at camp in the sheds, his asking for more money from home and the lack of military pay the soldiers have received.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Prisoner-of-war camps

Subject/geographic

• Chicago (Ill.)
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-02-07, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Valentine G. Barney Correspondence

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