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- Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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Topics include attempting to take a steamer, John Rice, with 8 companies to New Bern, North Carolina, encountering bad weather, and being forced to return to Fort Monroe. He also writes of the death of one young soldier from Company A, Austin Kennedy, and the death by drowning of another soldier,...
Show moreTopics include attempting to take a steamer, John Rice, with 8 companies to New Bern, North Carolina, encountering bad weather, and being forced to return to Fort Monroe. He also writes of the death of one young soldier from Company A, Austin Kennedy, and the death by drowning of another soldier, Vilas Smith of Marshfield.
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- Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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Writes of traveling by the steamer Long Island from City Point to Fort Monroe, of how woebegone City Point looks due to bombing, seeing the Confederate flag flying, searching the Confederate prisoners, finding many Union items, such as canteens and haversacks which were taken from them, of...
Show moreWrites of traveling by the steamer Long Island from City Point to Fort Monroe, of how woebegone City Point looks due to bombing, seeing the Confederate flag flying, searching the Confederate prisoners, finding many Union items, such as canteens and haversacks which were taken from them, of prisoners being paroled as no Union soldiers ready yet to be exchanged. He also mentions seeing naval ships at Newport News, and where the Regiment might go next.
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- Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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Barney writes while on board the steamer “Maple Leaf” and describes the trip, including a singalong with Captain Seligson and his guitar. Officers' wives aboard but seasick, confined to their rooms thus he deprived "the pleasure of looking at a white woman." He also writes of wishing his father...
Show moreBarney writes while on board the steamer “Maple Leaf” and describes the trip, including a singalong with Captain Seligson and his guitar. Officers' wives aboard but seasick, confined to their rooms thus he deprived "the pleasure of looking at a white woman." He also writes of wishing his father had sent a box with winter clothing that he had requested earlier, since the men need winter clothing.
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- Vermont
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The Vermont-first steamboat-1808
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- Vermont
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- Vermont
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- Vermont
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- Vermont
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- 1893
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The old two-stacker "Vermont" going North on an afternoon in 1893. This beautiful shot was made by Harvey Ingham, an artist and an excellent photographer of Vergennes. It is taken looking West off Diamond Island, the "Vermont" skirting the base of Split Rock Mountain heading for Essex, her next...
Show moreThe old two-stacker "Vermont" going North on an afternoon in 1893. This beautiful shot was made by Harvey Ingham, an artist and an excellent photographer of Vergennes. It is taken looking West off Diamond Island, the "Vermont" skirting the base of Split Rock Mountain heading for Essex, her next stop. Leaving Westport about 3pm, she would reach this spot about 3:30.
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- Vermont
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- Vermont
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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The steamboat Vermont III rests in its dry dock cradle as it is maneuvered out of the waters of Lake Champlain. Late 1920s, early 1930?
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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Photo of the steamboat ferry, Vermont, owned by the Champlain Transportation Company, with a large number of people on deck and in the foreground. Undated. 1920s? 1930s? The original Vermont side wheeler was built in 1808 by John and James Winans in Burlington, Vermont. It sank in 1815 but its...
Show morePhoto of the steamboat ferry, Vermont, owned by the Champlain Transportation Company, with a large number of people on deck and in the foreground. Undated. 1920s? 1930s? The original Vermont side wheeler was built in 1808 by John and James Winans in Burlington, Vermont. It sank in 1815 but its engine and boiler were recovered and sold to the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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Photo of the steamboat ferry, Vermont owned by the Champlain Transportation Company, with a large number of people on deck and in the foreground. Undated. 1920s? 1930s? The original Vermont side wheeler was built in 1808 by John and James Winans in Burlington, Vermont. It sank in 1815 but its...
Show morePhoto of the steamboat ferry, Vermont owned by the Champlain Transportation Company, with a large number of people on deck and in the foreground. Undated. 1920s? 1930s? The original Vermont side wheeler was built in 1808 by John and James Winans in Burlington, Vermont. It sank in 1815 but its engine and boiler were recovered and sold to the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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The Vermont III (steamboat) in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard with a workman working on its underside. See also mcalA17F04i18 for another view. Late 1920s, early 1930?
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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View of the steamboat Vermont III on the cradle at the Shelburne Shipyard just a the water's edge of Lake Champlain. The boat is perhaps being maneuvered into dry dock.
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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Vermont (steamboat) rests in its cradle in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard, Shelburne, Vermont. Late 1920s, early 1930?
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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The steamboat, Vermont, seen under the Crown Point Bridge spanning Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York state.
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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Vermont III (steamboat) in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard.
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- Vermont [Steamboat]
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Side wheeler Vermont III, a steamboat ferry, seen lifted out of the waters of Lake Champlain at the Shelburne Shipyard.
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- Victor small steamer