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Bradford Sparrow to Parents and Brothers
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    • Creator: Sparrow, Bradford.
    • Date Created: 1863-12-18
    • Description: A long letter started on Dec 18th and begun again Dec 25th. Topics include Bradford recovering from sickness, receiving goods from home, boots and shirts, Mr. Bishop eating up some of the eatable food meant for Sparrow due to going so long without food, making strawberry preserves, requesting several hundred pounds of butter and cheese, various utilitarian items including a spider frying pan, a list of items Ira wants, mentions by name other men he has seen and talked to, acknowledges that a letter went missing and recaps what was written in that letter.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Bradford Sparrow Correspondence


    Lyman Barton to Sister
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      • Creator: Barton, Lyman.
      • Date Created: 1862-11-25
      • Description: Topics include an account of the Battle of Antetam [sic], the cold weather, the high prices of goods at camp, and reports on the health of other soldiers and family members.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Barton Family Correspondence


      William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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        • Creator: Henry, James Edwin, 1844-1865.
        • Date Created: 1864-11-19
        • Description: Letter written by J. Edwin Henry to Mary Jane Henry, describing life in camp. He mentions that the picket lines are so close together that the soldiers talk to one another, and that one rebel soldier asked what Vermonters thought of ‚ÄúMosby‚Äôs raid into St. Albans.‚Äù He also writes that there are few officers yet in the 17th, making more work for those that are there, and that the only regret he has in enlisting is that he left his mother alone. As well, he enquires whether his sister, Delia Henry Anderson, is still visiting Vermont, or whether she has returned to North Carolina yet.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence


        Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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          • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
          • Date Created: [1861]-09-14
          • Description: Topics include Wheelock G. Veazey‚Äôs position as field officer of the day, the lack of sleep the soldiers are experiencing, and the ease with which the Rebels could attack the Regiment.
          • 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: 1862-01-09
            • Description: Topics include military matters (court martial, foraging, picket duty) and disgust with the Congress, administration, government and fears the nation's downfall.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


            Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams
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              • Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
              • Date Created: 1864-11-01
              • Description: Topics include wishing for letters from home, being in command of two companies and Adjutant as well, and his hopes for a leave of absence when the Brigade goes to winter quarters.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence


              Roswell Farnham to W. H. Hill
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                • Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
                • Date Created: 1863-05-31
                • Description: Field officer of the day report from Farnham to Captain William H. Hill (Assistant Adjudant General) relating review of the pickets on May 29 and May 30, the event of throwing up of lights by pickets in Centreville by order of the General
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Roswell Farnham Correspondence


                Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]
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                  • Creator: Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902.
                  • Date Created: 1862-12-25
                  • Description: Topics include the regiment guarding the Potomac River at Whitesford, the Rebels gathering on the hills opposite the camp, of anticipating Christmas dinner and a medical disaster at Washington requiring more personnel in the medical corps.
                  • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence


                  Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]
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                    • Creator: Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902.
                    • Date Created: 1864-02-22
                    • Description: Topics include explanation of his judgments of an unnamed individual, seeing the enemy while on picket, stopping at a house where a husband fathered several mulatto children with a slave mistress while sharing the same domicile as his wife, requests his daughter Helen to write and reflects on the loss of life in future battles.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence


                    Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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                      • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
                      • Date Created: 1863-04-19
                      • Description: Writes of moving camp again to along the Nansemond River (tributary of the James River), lack of sleep due to being on picket duty, coming under fire by enemy sharpshooters. He continues the letter by describing coming into the new camp after picket duty and being roused from sleep to prepare for another march because the enemy has crossed the river.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence