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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to Family

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Source Document

Description

Towle writes from his Virginia camp to his parents and sister on the mud while out on picket duty, fearfulness of some of the soldiers, list of items to send from home including a reference to his much needed new boots, sickness and deaths in the Regiment, and news of the Rochester boys.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Military camps -- Virginia
• Picketing
• Morale
• War casualties

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• 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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