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Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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    • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
    • Date Created: 1863-10-27
    • Description: Topics include attempting to take a steamer, John Rice, with 8 companies to New Bern, North Carolina, encountering bad weather, and being forced to return to Fort Monroe. He also writes of the death of one young soldier from Company A, Austin Kennedy, and the death by drowning of another soldier, Vilas Smith of Marshfield.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence


    Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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      • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
      • Date Created: 1863-10-30
      • Description: A short letter to let his wife know he has arrived in Morehead City, N.C., they are waiting for railroad cars to take them to the Newport barracks. He is writing while waiting for his breakfast with a dozen other men, also writing letters.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence


      William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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        • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
        • Date Created: 1864-07-09
        • Description: Henry writes that the Third Division of the Sixh Corps has unexpectedly been ordered to Harper‚Äôs Ferry to help defend Washington D.C. against Lieutenant General Jubal Early‚Äôs advance (though Henry writes that the general in command is General Ewell), and that the men are pleased to be moved away from Petersburg.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence


        Donovan Construction Company, Burlington
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          • Description: SC 1029 and SC 1030 docked. SC 1029 built by Donovan Construction Company of St. Paul, Minn. at the Shelburne Shipyard in Vermont. Company locally called Donovan Contracting. Keel laid 4/27/42. Launched 8/31/42. Commissioned 11/16/42. Transferred to France 10/30/44. SC 1030 built by Donovan Contracting Co., Shelburne, Vt. Keel laid 5/4/42. Launched 8/31/42. Commissioned 11/16/42. Transferred to France 10/2/44. To the right in the background is the steamboat Ticonderoga with a large sign atop the upper deck reading SHOW BOAT. The Ti traveled from Burlington Vt to Port Kent, NY until 1953.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


          Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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            • Date Created: 1955-01-26
            • Description: January 26, 1955. The bow of the steamship Ticonderoga is seen here. The entire ship is seated and welded to a wheeled cradle upon which the ship will be moved along the double railroad tracks laid before it. The cradle had been submerged in a man made basin that was flooded, the boat positioned over the cradle and then the basin drained allowing the boat to come to rest on the cradle. Photo 107.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


            Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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              • Description: A young family poses in front of the steamship Ticonderoga during its overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. On the ship's side is the sign for W. B. Hill Company who oversaw the boat's trek. Photo undated but probably February 1955.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


              Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                • Date Created: 1955-04-12
                • Description: April 12, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga is positioned in the berthing basin on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum. Behind the ship is seen the Colchester Lighthouse, one of the buildings of the museum. Photo 164.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                Ticonderoga
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                  • Description: Steamship Ticonderoga moves along inside the breakwater on Lake Champlain loaded with passengers. Undated but may be 1950s.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                  Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                    • Description: Undated but may be late 1954. Two unidentified men and their automobile stand in front of the steamship Ticonderoga as the ship rests on its cradle. Location may be the basin dug at the southern end of Shelburne Bay during preparation of the ship's overland journey to the Shelburne Museum.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                    Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                      • Date Created: 1955-03-08
                      • Description: March 8, 1955. A helicopter flies over the steamship Ticonderoga as the paddle-boat makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversaw the boat's overland journey.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs