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Item Description

Title: Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Recipient

• Towle, Rufus
• Towle, Sebra

Source Document

Description

December 29, 1861. Topics include the health of the regiment in the cold weather (rheumatism, boils, homesickness), camp inspection, lack of presence of Chaplain except at religious services, and the prospect of battle.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Homesickness
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Military chaplains

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-11-18, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Civil War correspondence of Ransom W. Towle and Thomas N. Flanders

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