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Item Description

Title: Justus F. Gale to Sister

Author

• Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863

Recipient

• Gale,Almeda A., 1835-1876

Source Document

Description

Topics include the being saddened by the ill health of his family in Elmore, enjoying good health himself, troops living in an apparently abandoned house in Bayou Boeuf, La., the parole of the prisoners who are still alive (not clear but these may be Union soldiers taken prisoners as some were shot for running from their army and joining a Union regiment), the movement of the army on the Potomac and still unable to get a photograph of himself taken.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Executions and executioners
• Prisoners of war

Subject/name

• Confederate States of AmericaArmy

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

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-09, 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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