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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

Topics include the medicating himself after seeing the doctor twice to rid his diarrhea, taking of Richmond and rebel prisoners, the weather in Algiers, high price of provisions, inquires about family and the plan to go visit friends 4 miles away.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Families of military personnel
• Medicine, Military
• Military camps -- Louisiana
• Prisoners of war
• Richmond (Va.)
• Operational rations (Military supplies)

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-03, 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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