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Item Description

Title: Justus F. Gale to Sister

Author

• Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863

Recipient

• ,

Source Document

Description

Topics include the good health of Justus Gale, the food available at Algiers including confiscated beef from the locals, standing guard for 12 hour shifts, killing alligators, writes of some of his comrades, the sickness of Sargent 2nd Class.Chas. C. Martin with inflammation of the bowels, the capture of Richmond and Vicksburg, mentions Confederate Gen. G. T. Beauregard, receiving a copy of the Green Mountain Freeman and refers to his religious faith.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Pillage
• Religion
• Richmond (Va.)
• Vicksburg (Miss.)
• Food

Subject/name

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

• Confederate States of AmericaArmy

• Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-03, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Justus F. Gale Correspondence

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