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Item Description

Title: John Lester Barstow to Laura

Author

• Barstow, John Lester, 1832-1913

Source Document

Description

Topics include being aboard the ship “Jamis Hovey” on the Mississippi River on the way to New Orleans, the difficulty of the journey from Ship Island to New Orleans, and the initial observations upon the arrival in New Orleans.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Ship Island (Miss.)

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

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

Subject/geographic

• Fort Jackson (La.)
• Fort Saint Philip (La.)
• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-17, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• John Lester Barstow Correspondence

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