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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 a description of Thanksgiving dinner in camp prepared with the help of the officers' wives, a reference to John Piper his "orderly", of soldiers plans to steal a gun from a neighboring farmer in order to get some turkeys and chickens for the holiday meal, of their arrest, the unpleasant weather, of Rutherford being jaundice and of his black boy Moses being sick and likely to die.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Fugitive slaves
• Military camps -- Maryland
• Women in war

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy

  -- Surgeons

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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