Vermonters in the Civil War

Vermont soldiers in the Civil War wrote an enormous quantity of letters and diaries, of which many thousands have survived in libraries, historical societies, and in private hands. This collection represents a selection of letters and diaries from the University of Vermont and the Vermont Historical Society. The collection includes materials dating from 1861-1865. Materials were selected for digitization to provide a variety of perspectives on events and issues. The voices represented in the collection include private soldiers and officers, as well as a few civilians. All of the extant Civil War-era letters or diaries of each of the selected individuals (at least, all that are to be found in the participating institutions’ collections) are included; each adds a certain experience and point of view to the whole. Officers in the photo above are (from left to right): Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Stoughton, Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton, Major Harry N. Worthen. All are from the Fourth Vermont Infantry Regiment.

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Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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    • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
    • Date Created: 1862-05-16
    • Description: Writing from Headquarters Smith's Division, Camp on Custis estate topics include Veazey missing his wife and a description of the camp that includes the presence of 50,000 men and lots of music.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


    Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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      • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
      • Date Created: 1862-08-24
      • Description: Writing from Hygeia Hospital at Fort Munroe topics include the ill health of Veazey (bilious condition) and that of his father-in-law.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


      Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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        • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
        • Date Created: 1863-01-09
        • Description: Writing from near Fairfax Court House, is in good health, drills practiced, men lost from the 15th and 16th regiments, a reference to a battle in Tennessee (maybe the Union win at the Battle of Stones River, Dec 31, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863), reflects on how the army will deal with the discharge of the soldiers signed up for only 9 months, mentions officers' wives in camp.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


        Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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          • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
          • Date Created: 1863-02-20
          • Description: Topics include forgiving his wife, the snow and rain, and the ill health of the men in camp, they being careless after being sick and men dying, not concerned about the gender of the baby.
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


          Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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            • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
            • Date Created: 1863-03-24
            • Description: Has received a photograph of Julia, his wife, in her furs, he inquires about her growing size due to her pregnancy, hearing good things about the city of Rutland, Vt, the expectation of moving there after the war and set up an office with a partner named Proctor, and the move of the regiment to Union Mills.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


            Ransom W. Towle to Rufus and Sebra Towle
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              • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
              • Date Created: 1862-02-23
              • Description: Topics include a Brigade Parade and a farewell address of Washington, he relates some of the soldiers opinions and predictions that the war will end in three weeks. Mention of 109 six mule teams passing through his camp; exact purpose unknown.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence


              Ransom W. Towle to Friends
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                • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                • Date Created: [1862]-03-05
                • Description: From Camp Griffin, Towle writes of a brigade and bayonet drill, the increasing number of sick men with the death count for the regiment at 77, and of the monotony of camp life.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence


                Ransom W. Towle to Friends
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                  • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                  • Date Created: 1862-04-06
                  • Description: Towle writes from near Yorktown and of firing upon and taking a Rebel fortification at Young's Mills with little resistance from the enemy. He writes a soldier was wounded soldier who was from the Rutland Company, 5th Regiment. The troops also marched to a well fortified encampment of the enemy. He was also in battle, men killed and wounded and the troops had difficulties with moving the artillery as the ground is march and swamp.
                  • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence


                  Ransom W. Towle to Friends
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                    • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                    • Date Created: 1862-06-08
                    • Description: Writing seven miles from Richmond, Virginia topics include the mention of the Chickahominy River, a prediction of a battle and a description of skirmishes.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence


                    Ransom W. Towle to [Family and Friends]
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                      • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                      • Date Created: 1862-06-16
                      • Description: Writing from the field topics include cleaning up the streets of Richmond, Va., Rebel and Union pickets conversing and trading bread and whiskey, the hot weather causing Sun Stroke, and building bridges and shoring up roads to ease the difficulty of moving the heavy artillery on the soft roads.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence