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Miniature of Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle
Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle
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    • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
    • Date Created: 1861-12-29
    • Description: December 29, 1861. Topics include the health of the regiment in the cold weather (rheumatism, boils, homesickness), camp inspection, lack of presence of Chaplain except at religious services, and the prospect of battle.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Civil War correspondence of Ransom W. Towle and Thomas N. Flanders
    Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
    Miniature of Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle
    Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle
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      • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
      • Date Created: 1861-11-25
      • Description: From Camp Griffen, Va. Topics include the health of the regiment (measles, Typhoid fever), requests for food, tea, clothing and the cold weather.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Civil War correspondence of Ransom W. Towle and Thomas N. Flanders
      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
      Miniature of Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle
      Letter to Rufus and Sebra Towle
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        • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
        • Date Created: 1861-12-07
        • Description: December 7, 1861. Topics include Ransom W. Towle's responsibilities in the regiment, discipline if duties not carried out, foraging for food, marching in preparation to join an attack, request for newspapers and the location of the camp.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Civil War correspondence of Ransom W. Towle and Thomas N. Flanders
        Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
        Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Family
        Ransom W. Towle to Family
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          • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
          • Date Created: 1862-01-09
          • Description: Towle writes in some detail of the hardships of and the way foraging expeditions are conducted, of the cold weather, of rumors of a recall of Vermont troops and of news from home.
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
          Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
          Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Family
          Ransom W. Towle to Family
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            • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
            • Date Created: [1862]-01-20
            • Description: Towle writes from his Virginia camp to his parents and sister on the mud while out on picket duty, fearfulness of some of the soldiers, list of items to send from home including a reference to his much needed new boots, sickness and deaths in the Regiment, and news of the Rochester boys.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
            Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
            Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Family and Friends
            Ransom W. Towle to Family and Friends
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              • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
              • Date Created: 1862-01-29
              • Description: Towle writes to parents and friends from Camp Griffin in Virginia about foraging for wood by tearing down fences, desolation of the countryside due to the war, Southerners pretending Union sympathies so as to not be driven from their homes, of the mud, and of making a pipe for smoking from the root of a Laurel tree.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
              Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
              Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Family and Friends
              Ransom W. Towle to Family and Friends
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                • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                • Date Created: 1862-02-02
                • Description: Towle writes of missing his newspaper and his wish to remain informed on both foreign and army news and of some of the men's morale writing home about the hardships of war and a desire to see it end. He writes of Col. Stoughton resignation, of officers' wives attending the camp's religious service and how the service differs from the traditional church worship.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
                Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Friends
                Ransom W. Towle to Friends
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                  • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                  • Date Created: 1862-06-26
                  • Description: Towle writes of what he hears about the living conditions of the Rebels including forced service, some without enough food and about the Battle of Richmond having been going on for a month with artillery shelling and likely to continue.
                  • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
                  Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                  Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Friends
                  Ransom W. Towle to Friends
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                    • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                    • Date Created: 1862-02-17
                    • Description: Topics include Towle‚Äôs sickness Saturday night, of illness and death within the company and regiment, praise for officer Lieut. Pingree, reference to rumor of the capture of Savannah (does he refer to Georgia?), and a brief reference to the possible firing of guns at Fort Ethan Allen for some victory somewhere.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
                    Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                    Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Friends
                    Ransom W. Towle to Friends
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                      • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                      • Date Created: 1861-02-27
                      • Description: Writing from his Virgina camp Griffin, Towle gives a description of a Battalion Drill and the ill health effects on the soldiers, of a gale storm damaging tents and overturning an ambulance with a sick soldier inside. He writes of orders from General McClellan to be ready to move, and states men are sick and death count to date for his regiment is 66.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
                      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War