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16 Military camps -- Virginia. 12 Families of military personnel. 10 Morale. 10 VeazeyWheelock G. (Wheelock Graves) 1835-1898. 9 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865). 9 Vermont -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 8 United States Army -- Military life. 7 Diseases. 5 Armed Forces -- Officers. 5 Military camps -- Maryland. 4 Love-letters. 3 Food. 3 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. 3 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2 Chicago (Ill.). 2 Culpeper County (Va.). 2 Drill and minor tactics. 2 Horses. 2 Medicine, Military. 2 Military pay. 2 Photographs. 2 Picketing. 2 Prisoners of war. 2 United States Army -- Surgeons. 2 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 10th (1862-1865). 2 War casualties. 1 Armies -- Medical and sanitary affairs. 1 Battle casualties. 1 Bounties, Military. 1 Butler(Benjamin Franklin) Mr 1818-1893. 1 Camp Douglas (Ill.). 1 Confederate States of America Army. 1 Copperhead movement. 1 Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States. 1 Draft -- United States. 1 FarnhamRoswell 1827-1903. 1 Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862. 1 HancockWinfield Scott 1824-1886. 1 JacksonStonewall 1824-1863. 1 Marching. 1 McClellanGeorge Brinton 1826-1885. 1 Military chaplains. 1 Military hospitals. 1 Newport (N.C.). 1 Newspapers. 1 Patriotism. 1 Pillage. 1 Postal service. 1 Promotions, Military. 1 Recruiting and enlistment. 1 Rumor. 1 Soldiers -- Alcohol use. 1 Tents. 1 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. 1 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. 1 United States Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865). 1 Winchester (Va.). 1 Yorktown (Va.).

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Miniature of William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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    • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
    • Date Created: 1861-10-08
    • Description: October 8, 1861 from Camp Advance, Virginia. Writes of kindness from Col Stannard, wet weather, grand review of artillery by Genl. McClellan, illness among the men including homesickness and Typhoid Fever, family business.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence
    Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
    Miniature of William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
    William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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      • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
      • Date Created: 1861-10-16
      • Description: Writes of feeling better from eating to many chestnuts, took Hibbards Pills, rustling cattle, pickets meeting up with Rebels with some, mentions friends and family life, misses his wife and young daughter Mollie.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence
      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
      Miniature of Henry A. Smith to Family
      Henry A. Smith to Family
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        • Creator: Smith, Henry A., d. 1864.
        • Date Created: 1862-07-05
        • Description: From Snickers Ferry on the Shenandoah River topics include news from Richmond, rumor that Stonewall Jackson was killed, having enough to eat including local peaches & cherries found in Virginia, horses well fed, men on picket duty, newspaper report that General McClellan taken prisoner along with 40,000 of his men, and Henry Smith's homesickness.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry A. Smith Correspondence
        Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
        Miniature of Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
        Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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          • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
          • Date Created: [1861]-12-09
          • Description: Topics include Wheelock G. Veazey telling his wife Julia A. Veazey how much he loves and misses her.
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence
          Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
          Miniature of Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]
          Joseph Rutherford to [Hannah Rutherford]
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            • Creator: Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902.
            • Date Created: 1864-04-14
            • Description: Expresses concern about Hannah's health, the political scandal over General Butler not searching baggage of Mrs. (Martha) Todd White [Mary Todd Lincoln's half sister], not seeking higher military pay, receiving sugar from home, prediction about Lincoln and the future election, asking his daughter, Helen, to not attend school but help teach her younger siblings to read and write.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence
            Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
            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: 1863-09-23
              • Description: Barney writes of imagining himself at home with his family, and of fixing up the camp barracks for winter with comfortable living quarters. He thanks his wife for sending him slippers and asks for cloth, shirts, towels and socks to be sent to him.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
              Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
              Miniature of William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
              William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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                • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
                • Date Created: 1862-11-23
                • Description: Writes of wanting to go home to see his wife or her coming to the camp in Md., how muddy it is in camp, knows soldiers in the Advance are marching, suffering from cold, rain & mud while he has a comfortable tent, wanting the war to end quickly, the health of the regiment is better, wishing for more letters from home.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence
                Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                Miniature of William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
                William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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                  • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
                  • Date Created: [1862-12-14]
                  • Description: News that the battle of Fredericksburg was a Union victory, how much he misses his wife, news that photographs he sent home were received, and the ill health of several members of the regiment.
                  • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence
                  Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                  Miniature of William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
                  William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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                    • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
                    • Date Created: 1862-12-16
                    • Description: Family matters, ill health of the children with whooping cough, remedies recommended by the surgeon (sulphuric ether), rebels coming close the night before and taking prisoners, and the health of one of the members of the regiment.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence
                    Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War
                    Miniature of Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
                    Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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                      • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
                      • Date Created: [1861]-10-02
                      • Description: Topics include Wheelock G. Veazey telling his wife Julia A. Veazey how much he loves and misses her.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence
                      Part of: Vermonters in the Civil War