Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]

Parent Collections

Vermonters in the Civil War

Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence

Title

Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]

Creator

Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902.

Date Created

1864-03-10

Description

Topics include various men going home on leave including Chaplain, Capt. Bartlett & Lt. Gale, a ball attended by staff officers and their wives, going to army headquarters, sending money home, all wives ordered to leave camps as soon as they can and reference to appointment of Joseph Daggett as 1st Lt (and Regimental Quartermaster of the 43rd U.S. Colored Infantry) to a Negro regiment, has written a newspaper article for the Newport News, came down with a case of the measles, many soldiers dying from diarrhea.

Subject

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.

African American soldiers.

Diseases.

Newspapers.

Note [Digital Version]

2011-05-10, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Genre

correspondence

Type of Resource

text

Publisher

Silver Special Collections, University of Vermont Libraries

Date Captured

5/10/2011 5:22:54 PM

Access Conditions

For further information please contact Special Collections, University of Vermont Libraries at uvmsc@uvm.edu.

Access Conditions [Local]

No Copyright - United States

Identifier [Local]

cwuvmrutherford95

Language

English

Language [Code]

eng

Digital Format

image/tiff

Digital Format

Text/Color: 24 bits; 300 ppi