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- Charles F. Bancroft to Parents
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Topics include items received from home and events surrounding a bottle of brandy that was stolen.
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- Charles F. Bancroft to Smiley Bancroft
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Topics include picket guard, description of camp life, and a prediction of the future of the war.
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- Charles F. Bancroft to [Family]
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Topics include setting up a choir at camp and organizing the sale of Vermont butter.
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- Conductors Will Pass Free
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A railroad military pass for Col. Roswell Farnham allowing passage from Alexandria (Va.) to Brandy (maybe, Brandy, Va.)
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- Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe
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Short letter mentioning photographs, pay, and his health.
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- Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe
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Topics include taking a Negro woman and her children as prisoners to keep them safe from their master, anticipation of a battle, false rumor that officers appropriated a box meant for the soldiers for it was delivered to the men.
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- Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe
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He writes of the return to Vermont of his wife’s brother, Oramel G. Howe, of sending her a can of milk, as well as other items, going to Brandy Station on business, having drill practice and of witnessing a horse race in which $1000 was the prize.
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- Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe
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Letter includes a poetic description of nature, contrasting with itthe blight of slavery, and his hope for the end of the war. It also includes ruminations on death in the field versus a natural death at home. As well, he writes of love. He then gives details of the health of his Company,...
Show moreLetter includes a poetic description of nature, contrasting with itthe blight of slavery, and his hope for the end of the war. It also includes ruminations on death in the field versus a natural death at home. As well, he writes of love. He then gives details of the health of his Company, including the news that Sergeant Beckwith was bitten by a snake, and mentions several visitors.
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- Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe
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Topics include the witnessing of a hanging execution of a man from the New Hampshire 2nd Regiment who had killed an innocent woman (wife of a rebel soldier), his reaction to the hanging, of military tactics to deter the rebels advance, of breakfast awaiting consisting of fried pork bread and coffee.
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- Daniel S. White to Maria Howe White
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Topics include a photograph of Maria with a new hair style and a joking encounter with another officer about the photograph. He also writes of memories of his youth and how he would never have believed there would be a civil war and that he would participate in one.
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- Daniel S. White to Maria Howe White
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Letter written to reassure his wife that he was alive, though wounded in the leg, after the Battle of the Wilderness.
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- Diary of Horace Barlow
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- Draft of Official Statement
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Topics include an account of a situation involving Colonel Bulavsky and Major Alden that lead to the recommendation of a “Court of Inquiry” being held.
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- E. A. Morse to John Wolcott Phelps
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Topics include rations for the 1st Regiment of the Vermont Volunteer Militia for May 23rd to August 8th, processing routine, the offering of the position of Quartermaster in the 4th Vermont Regiment, writer's decline of the position.
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- E. P. Mason to [Asa P.] Blunt
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Topics include E. P. Mason asking Roswell Farnham for his help in protecting his sick family.
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- E. P. Mason to [Asa P.] Blunt
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Topics include G. Mason stationed in Spring Bank Virginia requesting of Col. Blunt that guards be stationed around his house and wood pile for protection.
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- E. Putnance to Alner D. Sparrow
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Letter from clerk in the Adjutant General's office to Bradford's father, Alner, regarding his inquiry about Bradford. Letter states nothing is known at the office about Bradford except that he was taken prisoner and that Alner's request for information has been forwarded to F. F. Holbrook,...
Show moreLetter from clerk in the Adjutant General's office to Bradford's father, Alner, regarding his inquiry about Bradford. Letter states nothing is known at the office about Bradford except that he was taken prisoner and that Alner's request for information has been forwarded to F. F. Holbrook, Vermont Military Commissioner.
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- E. R. S. Canby to J. Gregory Smith
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Topics include the acknowledgement of the privileges awarded to the men enlisted under the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Vermont.
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- E. T. Johnson to Mary [Farnham]
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Topics include several companies camping on the riverbank in Maryland, Jackson’s army assembling in Leasburg, and preparing to march most likely to Edwards Ferry.
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- E. V. N. Hitchcock to John Wolcott Phelps
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Topics include camping outside of Fort Pickens at Camp Stoughton, the good health of the regiment, the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, and the ungentleman-like ways the officers act. Hitchcock's mood is fairly upbeat but realistic: predicting the end of the war is difficult; a long...
Show moreTopics include camping outside of Fort Pickens at Camp Stoughton, the good health of the regiment, the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, and the ungentleman-like ways the officers act. Hitchcock's mood is fairly upbeat but realistic: predicting the end of the war is difficult; a long expected attack on the island never occurred (indicating a fault in intelligence?); army life is good, but he hopes Phelps can find a better situation for him. Hitchcock mentions the "negro regiment" in charge of Ship Island.
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