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Item Description

Title: Justus F. Gale to Father

Author

• Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863

Recipient

• Gale,Jonas, 1800-1874

Source Document

Description

Topics include the living conditions and food in New Orleans, continues with cooking duty, the good weather, soldiers bringing back to camp chickens, eggs, an account of the poor treatment of slaves, two slave boys being rescued from ill treatment from their masters, and the observance of Sabbath in camp, wishing to know more news of the war than he can get in the South.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Pillage
• Religion
• Military camps -- Louisiana
• Children and war
• Fugitive slaves
• Food

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-03, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Justus F. Gale Correspondence

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