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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to Rufus and Sebra Towle

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Recipient

• Towle, Sebra

Source Document

Description

Towle responds to his parents' letter that expresses low morale at home, financial difficulties at home and Towle encourages the doing without luxuries on the home front as much as possible. He writes of a 30 hour picket trip, the capture of rebel two scouts, drills being only two a day and of a self inflicted wounding of a Union soldier requiring amputation of the wounded soldier's leg.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Drill and minor tactics
• Families of military personnel
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Picketing
• Prisoners of war

Subject/geographic

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

Subject/name

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

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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