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Item Description

Title: Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney

Author

• Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889

Recipient

• Barney,Maria, 1833-1884

Source Document

Description

Writing from Camp Seigle near Winchester, Va. topics include having a good meal, postal service finally getting the mail on the road only to be handed off and the rider now missing, the burning of the city (Winchester?), being invited to take refreshments by city residents but declining as he did not want to risk being poisoned, Lieutenant Jewett on picket duty, attended worship service, misses his young children, and the hope that the 10th regiment will arrive in camp.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Families of military personnel
• Food
• Postal service

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 9th (1862-1865)

Subject/geographic

• Winchester (Va.)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-02-07, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Valentine G. Barney Correspondence

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