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Item Description

Title: Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]

Author

• Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902

Recipient

• Rutherford, Hannah

Source Document

Description

Topics include Rutherford’s hope to send money home to his wife Hannah, of anticipation of having a Thanksgiving dinner in camp, the good health of the entire family, of the Colonel praising Rutherford for his performance of medical duties and of the man Murk who wrote slanderous reports of the surgeons being put on trial.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armies -- Medical and sanitary affairs
• Families of military personnel
• Military camps -- Maryland
• Military discipline

Subject/name

• 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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