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Item Description

Title: Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]

Author

• Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902

Recipient

• Rutherford, Hannah

Source Document

Description

Rutherford writes of the regiment's movement to Camp Grove Offults Cup, Maryland. Also of his contempt for soldiers who want to shirk their military duties, of how well the truly sick soldiers are cared for in the hospital, and a slanderous report written about the Surgeon which Rutherford firmly denies, gives his side of the story including military discipline and an account of who a man named Murk who is responsible for the false report.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armies -- Medical and sanitary affairs
• Homesickness
• Military camps -- Maryland
• Military hospitals
• War casualties

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Surgeons

Subject/geographic

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-04-29, 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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