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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

Gale writes of his regiment and the rebels, of other troops encountering the enemy who left much camp supplies, cannon, etc. behind, receiving the Green Mountain Freeman, trying to appease both parents concerning the farm and deeding it back to his father, his concerns about his father having another woman in his life and how that affects him, and the expectation that the regiment will return to Algiers.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Families of military personnel
• Skirmishing

Subject/name

• Confederate States of AmericaArmy

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-09, 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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