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Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, October 10, 1862 - January 20, 1863
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- Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
- Date Created: 1862-1863
- Description: This diary records the events leading up to the resignation of Urbano Rattazzi and his ministry in Italy, as well as the events that follow the 1862 elections and the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States. While the Marshes search for a new place to live, they sightsee in Como, hike Mount Bisbino, and settle into a temporary residence in Pegli (a seaside neighborhood in Genoa), where they befriend the Tebbs and Strettell families. Topics in this diary include Giuseppe Garibaldi, renting and occupying real estate in Italy, Italian art and architecture, Italian etiquette, Italian marriages, the education of women in the 19th century, tourism in Italy, the culture, climate, and industries in Genoa; Italian agricultural practices, public religious celebrations, the “Roman Question,” Christianity among the English and their attitudes towards Catholicism, crime and punishment in Italy, and Caroline Crane Marsh’s reasons for keeping a diary.
- Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated April 6, 1862.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Hiram Powers Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated August 14, 1862.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Hiram Powers Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated June 12, 1862.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Charles Eliot Norton Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from HIRAM POWERS to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated April 7, 1862.
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- Creator: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Hiram Powers Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated May 1 1862.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Hiram Powers Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
General order no. 19 ... It appearing to the Commander in Chief that the people of the State of Vermont are earnestly anxious, that the number of men, required from this State to serve for nine months under the recent call
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- Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.
- Date Issued: 1862
- Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
Cavalry horses wanted! : the subscriber will purchase horses suitable for cavalry uses ... 1862 ... Joseph Lance
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- Date Issued: 1862
- Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
Mary Farnham Diary, 1862-1863
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- Creator: Farnham, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, 1828-1913.
- Date Created: 1862-1863
- Description: Mary Elizabeth (Johnson) Farnham, the daughter of Ezekiel and Nancy (Rodgers) Johnson, was born in Bath, NH, on January 19, 1828. She came to Bradford with her parents at a young age and was educated at Bradford Academy and the Newbury Seminary. On December 25, 1849, she married Roswell Farnham (1827-1903) in St. Albans, Vt. They returned to Bradford to teach in the Bradford Academy, Farnham as the teacher of painting and French, and her husband as principal of the academy. The couple joined the Bradford Congregational Church in 1854 and participated in a number of its activities: both Farnhams taught in the church’s Sunday school, and Mary Farnham held a chair on its music committee and was active in its missionary efforts. Farnham spent several months during the winter of 1862-63 in Union camps near Fairfax Court House and Wolf Run Shoals, VA, with her husband, who had been appointed Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the 12th Vermont Volunteer Regiment. Farnham returned to Vermont in April 1863 and her husband was discharged later that year, after which he entered into a career in politics. When Roswell Farnham was elected governor of Vermont in 1880, Mary Farnham became the state’s first lady and played an active role in gubernatorial social events. Farnham was involved in a number of civic organizations in her town, including Bradford’s Relief Corps. She helped found the Ladies’ Public Library and was its librarian for many years. Her interest in literature led her to enroll in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Course, from which she graduated in 1884. She went on to earn one hundred and forty seals on her diploma and was recognized for this achievement at the 1906 Chautauqua Assembly in Chautauqua, NY. Three of Farnham’s four children lived to adulthood: Charles Cyrus Farnham (1864–1937), Florence Mary Osgood (1866–1958), and William M. Farnham (1869–1927). Her first child, Roswell Phelps Farnham Jr., died in infancy in 1861. Mary Farnham died on June 13, 1913, having suffered a stroke two weeks prior. Topics in Farnham’s diary include living conditions in Union camps and towns near the front lines, the roles and expectations of women during the American Civil War, Washington D.C. in the 1860s, mid-century modes of travel, and health and medicine during the Civil War.
- Parent Collections: Diaries
It is made the duty of each Principal Recruiting Officer to exercise especial care, that his subordinate officers work faithfully and diligently
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- Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.
- Date Issued: 1862
- Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera