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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 observing the Sabbath in camp by reading the Bible, a description of dress parade, gives his enlistment date at Sept 23, 1861, anticipates military pay of $20 a month from the date of enlistment and mentions again the bombardment of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River by Commodore A H Foote and General Grant.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

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

Subject/geographic

• Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Subject/topic

• Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862

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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