Note: Put the word between quotation marks (“example”) to perform an exact search.

List

Gallery

Showing 1 - 10 of 69 Records

Relevance Title (A-Z) Title (Z-A) Date – oldest Date – newest
10 25 50 100
Active filters
Subject Topic Merge: Prisoners of war.   Remove all  

14 Armed Forces -- Officers. 14 Battle casualties. 14 Families of military personnel. 13 Food. 13 Military camps -- Virginia. 12 Confederate States of America Army. 10 Diseases. 10 United States Army -- Military life. 9 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 9th (1862-1865). 8 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. 6 Camp Douglas (Ill.). 6 Chicago (Ill.). 6 Prisoner-of-war camps. 5 Marching. 5 Picketing. 5 Promotions, Military. 5 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. 3 Desertion, Military. 3 FarnhamRoswell 1827-1903. 3 Horses. 3 Morale. 3 Skirmishing. 3 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865). 2 Culpeper County (Va.). 2 Drill and minor tactics. 2 Fort Monroe (Va.). 2 Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. 2 Guerrilla warfare. 2 Homesickness. 2 Military camps -- Maryland. 2 Military deserters. 2 Military hospitals. 2 Photographs. 2 Postal service. 2 Railroad trains. 2 Religion. 2 Soldiers -- Alcohol use. 2 Sutlers. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Destruction and pillage. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Flags. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects. 2 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 12th (1862-1863). 2 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865). 2 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1864). 2 War -- Economic aspects. 2 War casualties. 1 African Americans. 1 Andersonville Prison. 1 BanksNathaniel Prentiss 1816-1894. 1 Brandy Station, Battle of, Brandy Station, Va., 1863. 1 Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861. 1 Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States. 1 Draftees. 1 Executions and executioners. 1 Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862. 1 Fugitive slaves. 1 Gettysburg Campaign, 1863. 1 Hardtack. 1 HolbrookFrederick 1813-1909. 1 Hopewell (Va.) -- City Point. 1 Intrenchments. 1 JacksonStonewall 1824-1863. 1 Lee William Henry Fitzhugh 1837-1891. 1 Love-letters. 1 McClellanGeorge Brinton 1826-1885. 1 Medicine, Military. 1 Military camps -- Illinois. 1 Military camps -- Louisiana. 1 Military chaplains. 1 Military discipline. 1 Military funerals. 1 Military leaves and furloughs. 1 Military pay. 1 Newspapers. 1 Operational rations (Military supplies). 1 Photographers. 1 Pleasanton A. J. (Alfred J.) 1824-1897. 1 Presidents -- Assassination. 1 Richmond (Va.). 1 Rumor. 1 Stannard, George Jerrison 1820-1886. 1 StannardGeorge Jerrison 1820-1886. 1 Steamboats. 1 StuartJeb 1833-1864. 1 Trench warfare. 1 United States Army -- Flags. 1 United States Army. Vermont Brigade, 1st (1861-1865). 1 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 10th (1862-1865). 1 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 15th (1862-1863). 1 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1863). 1 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865). 1 Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1 War -- Psychological aspects. 1 Women in war.

69 text
Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
Image nop
    • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
    • Date Created: 1862-09-20
    • Description: Topics include Barney and other men being taken prisoner at Harpers Ferry while on picket guard duty, being paroled and walking towards Annapolis, sleeping with no gear or equipment, little to eat but hard bread and raw pork, and the promise to give a detailed account of the events when Barney has more time to write. Maryland Campaign Sept 3-15, 1862.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
    Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
    Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
    Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
    Image nop
      • Creator: Whitmore, Orange S., 1836-1908.
      • Date Created: 1862-10-29
      • Description: Whitmore writes to Maria Barney of the improvement of Barney‚Äôs health, of Barney advising Maria to keep the cow and the possibility of returning to Vermont in the near future.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
      Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
      Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
      Image nop
        • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
        • Date Created: 1863-02-22
        • Description: His medicinal use of alcohol, the bitter weather, a practical joke he played on Lieutenant Erastus W. Jewett and the uses of humor, singing (Brave Boys are they) and other entertainments, his conversation with a Rebel prisoner about allegiance to the U.S., his worries about the news of small pox back home in Swanton.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
        Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
        Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
        Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
        Image nop
          • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
          • Date Created: 1863-04-02
          • Description: A brief letter telling of traveling by railroad from Chicago to Baltimore with 451 Confederate prisoners captured at Murfreesboro and Arkansas Post, speculation about where the 9th Vermont will be stationed and mentions Col. Stowell
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
          Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
          Miniature of Henry A. Smith to Clarissa A. Smith
          Henry A. Smith to Clarissa A. Smith
          Image nop
            • Creator: Smith, Henry A., d. 1864.
            • Date Created: 1863-08-11
            • Description: A short letter written from Belle Isle Prison to reassure his mother after his capture on July 6 at Hagerstown, Maryland.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry A. Smith Correspondence
            Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
            Miniature of Henry A. Smith to Clarissa A. Smith
            Henry A. Smith to Clarissa A. Smith
            Image nop
              • Creator: Smith, Henry A., d. 1864.
              • Date Created: 1863-11-20
              • Description: Topics include receiving a letter from home, his hope to be released and return home, and news about others from his regiment who were killed or wounded at Hagerstown on July 6.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry A. Smith Correspondence
              Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
              Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
              Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
              Image nop
                • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
                • Date Created: [1861]-07-23
                • Description: Topics include the plan for the journey home, the death of Whitney of the Woodstock Co. by the hands of forty or fifty rebels, the capture of two rebels, and of only a few men ill in the hospital.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
                Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
                Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
                Image nop
                  • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
                  • Date Created: 1862-08-28
                  • Description: Topics include the capturing of some Rebels at Newtown who stated Rebels do not go hungry as long a Union troops are around from which to steal food, issues with the postal mail service, the difficulty of getting rest in camp, and the sickness of the regiment.
                  • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
                  Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                  Miniature of Lyman Barton to Hiram Barton
                  Lyman Barton to Hiram Barton
                  Image nop
                    • Creator: Barton, Lyman, 1839-1936.
                    • Date Created: 1863-06-28
                    • Description: Lyman Barton describes a turntable built for a Confederate railway gun which was captured before it was operational. He also writes of an attack of the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry led by Colonel Spear near Hanover Court House, during which General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was captured.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Barton Family Correspondence
                    Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                    Miniature of Justus F. Gale to Father
                    Justus F. Gale to Father
                    Image nop
                      • Creator: Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863.
                      • Date Created: 1862-07-10
                      • Description: Topics include the medicating himself after seeing the doctor twice to rid his diarrhea, taking of Richmond and rebel prisoners, the weather in Algiers, high price of provisions, inquires about family and the plan to go visit friends 4 miles away.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Justus F. Gale Correspondence
                      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War