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Item Description

Title: Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]

Author

• Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902

Recipient

• Rutherford, Hannah

Source Document

Description

Rutherford writes of the illness of the his assistant surgeon, Dr. Clarke, of his own excellent health, and all he is enjoying at camp including a hive of bees. He writes of fresh meat, fowl and fruit available to eat, of a companion dog and of his horse he admires so much. He speaks of the difference in military medical care of the soldiers and notes how the care results in more or fewer sick soldiers and of deaths.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military hospitals
• War casualties

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-04-29, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence

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