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Item Description

Title: Ransom W. Towle to Friends

Author

• Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864

Source Document

Description

Writing after a battle near Yorktown, Towle recalls those wounded and killed. States preparations continue to be made for more fighting, that provisions for the men sometimes are difficult to get, that Col Stoughton performs admirably but that General Smith was drunk and has been arrested .

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Armed Forces -- Officers
• Battle casualties
• Intrenchments

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties

Subject/name

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

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2011-08-23, 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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