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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: 1862-06-16
    • 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
    Miniature of Theodore Barton to Melissa Barton
    Theodore Barton to Melissa Barton
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      • Creator: Barton, Theodore, 1842-1926.
      • Date Created: 1863-01-25
      • Description: Theodore Lyman writes of seeing his brother Lyman, Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, who is camped only two miles away. He also writes of the attempt by General Burnside to cross the Rappahannock and how the Confederate soldiers jeered and set up a sign saying ‚ÄúBurnside stuck in the mud.‚Äù
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Barton Family Correspondence
      Miniature of Roswell Farnham to Laura
      Roswell Farnham to Laura
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        • Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
        • Date Created: 1863-02-01
        • Description: Letter includes two drawings, one of a stockaded tent the soldiers have done and one of Farnham's cabin, all at Wolf Run Shoals, Va., a description of camp life and conditions, his sister Mary‚Äôs visit to camp, the mud and snow, and reconsidering sending money home to repay debts.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Roswell Farnham Correspondence
        Miniature of Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
        Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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          • 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
          Miniature of Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother
          Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother
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            • Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
            • Date Created: 1862-06-11
            • Description: Topics include clarifying things that were written home about Merrill, what Wilder will do once he leaves the army alive, and a man named Damon Hunter returning home after having his leg amputated. One Civil War chronology notes on this date "little or no action on the main front in Virginia along the Chickahominy."
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence