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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 to parents and friends from Camp Griffin in Virginia about foraging for wood by tearing down fences, desolation of the countryside due to the war, Southerners pretending Union sympathies so as to not be driven from their homes, of the mud, and of making a pipe for smoking from the root of a Laurel tree.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Destruction and pillage

Subject/topic

• Military camps -- Virginia
• Pillage

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-06, 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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