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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to [Family and Friends]

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Source Document

Description

Towle writes from the field near Richmond, Va on heavy firing between Union gun boats on James River and Fort Darlin, an exchange of fire with the enemy, the seemingly deterioration of Gen. McClellan's appearance and the arrest of Colonel Stoughton for not turning out with his regiment to in line of battle.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Marching
• Picketing
• 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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