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Item Description

Title: Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]

Author

• Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902

Recipient

• Rutherford, Hannah

Source Document

Description

Writing from White's Ford, Maryland two letters of Jan 23 (or 25?) and 27 topics include photographs, military pay, of ambulance drill to teach hospital attendants medical practices, warm weather, men singing, being made the Surgeon if Dr. Willard Augustus Childe is promoted, moving to Poolesville, Maryland, Col. A. B. Jewett in command of the Brigade, the disgrace of two officers by getting drunk, the potential for a man from his Vermont county to receive a dishonorable discharge and of him being in good health.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Surgeons

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 10th (1862-1865)

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Military pay
• Photographs

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care

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
• Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence

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