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Item Description

Title: Justus F. Gale to Sister

Author

• Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863

Recipient

• Gale,Samantha A., 1832-1892

Source Document

Description

Topics include the improvement in Justus Gale's health, the cost of food items in camp, the death of three men in the regiment, the attempted suicide of a man in Company F, mentions "sugar place" back home in Elmore and writes about the lack of information in camp about the rest of the Union Army.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• War casualties
• Ship Island (Miss.)
• Sutlers
• Soldiers -- Suicidal behavior
• Food

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

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

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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