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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to Friends

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Source Document

Description

Topics include Towle’s sickness Saturday night, of illness and death within the company and regiment, praise for officer Lieut. Pingree, reference to rumor of the capture of Savannah (does he refer to Georgia?), and a brief reference to the possible firing of guns at Fort Ethan Allen for some victory somewhere.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Military camps -- Virginia
• War casualties
• Armed Forces -- Officers

Subject/name

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

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care

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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