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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to Sister and Friends

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Source Document

Description

Camping in the field near Richmond topics include the weather in Virginia with food crops growing well in the hot temperatures, pickets conversing and trading papers, coffee, whiskey, fighting resulting in losses, reference to Rifle Pits, preparations for the Battle of Richmond, sickness among the soldiers.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Battle casualties
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Picketing
• Soldiers -- Alcohol use
• Peninsular Campaign, 1862

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-08-23, 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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