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Letter to Mary N. Collamer, March 2, 1862
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- Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865.
- Description: Topics include Judiciary sub-committee testimony on the need for an additional Judge in the Northern District of Georgia; cloture vote on the filibuster of the anti-lynching bill.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated April 27, 1862.
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- Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Charles Eliot Norton Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
General order no. 17 ... It is hereby ordered, that the following regulations be observed for enabling such towns in this State to avoid draft, as desire to do so, and have not yet provided their quota of militia under the regulations of General Order No. 13, and for drafting men in those towns in which men shall be required to be raised by draft
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- Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.
- Date Issued: 1862
- Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
General order no. 10 ... For the purpose of completing the quota of the state of Vermont of the three hundred thousand men recently call for by the President
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- Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.
- Date Issued: 1862
- Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
George B. Smith\, Henrietta Smith\, and Edward C. Smith photographic portrait
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- Creator: Unidentified.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Letter from HIRAM POWERS to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated March 12, 1862.
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- Creator: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Hiram Powers Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Mary Farnham Diary, 1862-1863
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- Creator: Farnham, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, 1828-1913.
- Date Created: 1862-1863
- Description: Mary Elizabeth (Johnson) Farnham, the daughter of Ezekiel and Nancy (Rodgers) Johnson, was born in Bath, NH, on January 19, 1828. She came to Bradford with her parents at a young age and was educated at Bradford Academy and the Newbury Seminary. On December 25, 1849, she married Roswell Farnham (1827-1903) in St. Albans, Vt. They returned to Bradford to teach in the Bradford Academy, Farnham as the teacher of painting and French, and her husband as principal of the academy. The couple joined the Bradford Congregational Church in 1854 and participated in a number of its activities: both Farnhams taught in the church’s Sunday school, and Mary Farnham held a chair on its music committee and was active in its missionary efforts. Farnham spent several months during the winter of 1862-63 in Union camps near Fairfax Court House and Wolf Run Shoals, VA, with her husband, who had been appointed Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the 12th Vermont Volunteer Regiment. Farnham returned to Vermont in April 1863 and her husband was discharged later that year, after which he entered into a career in politics. When Roswell Farnham was elected governor of Vermont in 1880, Mary Farnham became the state’s first lady and played an active role in gubernatorial social events. Farnham was involved in a number of civic organizations in her town, including Bradford’s Relief Corps. She helped found the Ladies’ Public Library and was its librarian for many years. Her interest in literature led her to enroll in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Course, from which she graduated in 1884. She went on to earn one hundred and forty seals on her diploma and was recognized for this achievement at the 1906 Chautauqua Assembly in Chautauqua, NY. Three of Farnham’s four children lived to adulthood: Charles Cyrus Farnham (1864–1937), Florence Mary Osgood (1866–1958), and William M. Farnham (1869–1927). Her first child, Roswell Phelps Farnham Jr., died in infancy in 1861. Mary Farnham died on June 13, 1913, having suffered a stroke two weeks prior. Topics in Farnham’s diary include living conditions in Union camps and towns near the front lines, the roles and expectations of women during the American Civil War, Washington D.C. in the 1860s, mid-century modes of travel, and health and medicine during the Civil War.
- Parent Collections: Diaries
It is made the duty of each Principal Recruiting Officer to exercise especial care, that his subordinate officers work faithfully and diligently
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- Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.
- Date Issued: 1862
- Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
Moses S. Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1862 February 14
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- Creator: Colton, Moses Shepard.
- Description: Topics include the state and value of his farm and stock, his poor health and that of family members, his opinions regarding emancipation, a few cases of small pox brought back by returning soldiers, and the activities of his family.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Letter from HIRAM POWERS to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated May 2, 1862.
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- Creator: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Hiram Powers Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center