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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: 1862-02-02
    • 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 [Family and Friends]
    Ransom W. Towle to [Family and Friends]
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      • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
      • Date Created: 1862-06-18
      • Description: Towle writes from the field near Richmond, Va on heavy firing between Union gun boats on James River and Fort Darlin, an exchange of fire with the enemy, the seemingly deterioration of Gen. McClellan's appearance and the arrest of Colonel Stoughton for not turning out with his regiment to in line of battle.
      • 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: 1862-01-09
        • 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 and Friends]
        Ransom W. Towle to [Family and Friends]
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          • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
          • Date Created: 1862-06-03
          • Description: Writing from in the field near Richmond, Va. topics include a detailed description of Company E at Lees Mills and speaks well of officers (Pingree, Terry). He criticizes a fellow soldier for shirking duty and writes of fighting of the the union and rebel batteries.
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
          Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
          Miniature of Ransom W. Towle to Rufus and Sebra Towle
          Ransom W. Towle to Rufus and Sebra Towle
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            • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
            • Date Created: 1862-01-11
            • Description: Towle writes from his Virginia camp to his parents about drill, military life, resignation of officers due to being unfit physically or mentally, of still needing new boots, illness, and his positive opinion of Colonel Stoughton.
            • 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: 1862-06-19
                • Description: Topics include the Massachusetts 16th Regiment pushing the rebels back in heavy fighting with the Rebels in rifle pits, soldiers killed (74), prisoners taken (16) and preparations being made to move out in anticipation of battle the next day.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
                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 Ransom W. Towle to Rufus and Sebra Towle
                  Ransom W. Towle to Rufus and Sebra Towle
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                    • Creator: Towle, Ransom W., d. 1864.
                    • Date Created: 1862-02-05
                    • Description: Towle responds to his parents' letter that expresses low morale at home, financial difficulties at home and Towle encourages the doing without luxuries on the home front as much as possible. He writes of a 30 hour picket trip, the capture of rebel two scouts, drills being only two a day and of a self inflicted wounding of a Union soldier requiring amputation of the wounded soldier's leg.
                    • 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: 1862-06-10
                      • Description: Writing seven miles from Richmond topics include packing up camp and marching at 10pm, a terrible rain storm that soaked the men, of sick soldiers including Towle.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
                      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War