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Item Description

Title: Justus F. Gale to [Family]

Author

• Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863

Recipient

• ,

Source Document

Description

Writing from Brattleboro topics include drilling, a few companies being sworn into the United States service, Justus Gale’s health improving from a brief cold, mentions "rag" hash soup, boiled beef & potatoes, news of family members and the snow at camp.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Drill and minor tactics
• Military camps -- Vermont
• Food
• Operational rations (Military supplies)

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

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

Subject/geographic

• Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 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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