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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


    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


      Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams
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        • Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
        • Date Created: 1864-07-03
        • Description: Writes of a raid on the railroad line between Richmond, Virginia and Welden, North Carolina at Ream‚Äôs Station destroying tracks, his wish to be at home visiting with his brother, Nathan, the hot and dusty weather, and getting paid.
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence


        Lyman S. Williams to Carrie A. Williams
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          • Creator: Williams, Lyman S., 1839-1905.
          • Date Created: 1864-11-13
          • Description: Topics include moving camp towards Winchester, Virginia, a Confederate attack on the picket lines resulting in rebel prisoners, captured artillery & ammunition trains, receiving his commission as 1st Lieutenant of Company I, and his happiness that President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected.
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Lyman S. Williams Correspondence


          Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother
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            • Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
            • Date Created: 1862-01-26
            • Description: Topics include marching orders, the cold weather, and the way the regiment sets up their guns so they are always ready. The order to march probably refers to Lincoln's General War Order No. 1, an attempt to prod his generals to act. By "Chatilerz" Wilder may have meant "chattelers," or those assigned the duty of moving war materiel.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence


            Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother
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              • Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
              • Date Created: 1862-04-09
              • Description: Topics include the rebels being strongly fortified at Lee's Mill, the preparations for a hard battle (the month-long siege of Yorktown), and Merrill's sickness. Detailed description of some dead and wounded soldiers.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence


              [Henry Harrison Wilder] to Mother
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                • Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
                • Date Created: 1861-12-11
                • Description: Henry writes from Camp Griffin, Va of the regiment's scouting expedition, of Capt. Stowell's company, of obtaining two hogs from a pen, of the fact that the captain is not very liked and that Lt. Hamilton is well liked by the company. Cautions his mother against being bothered about hear say.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence


                Henry Harrison Wilder to Mother
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                  • Creator: Wilder, Henry Harrison.
                  • Date Created: 1861-12-17
                  • Description: Henry requests food items of sausages, a chicken pie, and cheese, writes that Merrill wants his mother to stuff 5 chickens, bake them and freeze them and send them in a box, of he and Merrill going to be tent mates.
                  • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence


                  John M. Stone to Family
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                    • Creator: Stone, John M., 1835-1915.
                    • Date Created: 1861-12-[09]
                    • Description: Topics include the health of the regiment and numerous deaths.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Edward P. Stone Correspondence


                    John M. Stone to Family
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                      • Creator: Stone, John M., 1835-1915.
                      • Date Created: 1862-08-28
                      • Description: Two letters dated Aug 28 & Aug 30 ; grateful for letters from home writing, pride in Vermont for providing soldiers, loading wagons onto the boats in Hampton (Va.?), pleased with the work done by black men, sending money home and news from home.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Edward P. Stone Correspondence