Marshall, Jeffrey D., ed. A War of the People: Civil War Letters. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999.

Quaker, need for peace, enlistment, possible factory built, 18-20 Enlistment, brothers should enlisted together, self-defense, treason, 21-22 War excitement, Kentucky, formation of military companies, should have accepted Crittenden compromise, 22-23 School, students excited by war, enlistment, 23-24 Sergeant Valentine G. Barney, Co. A, 1st Vermont Infantry, Fort Monroe, steamboats, Butler, 25-26 William Y. W. Ripley, Co. K, 1st Vermont Infantry, camp, tents, Fort Monroe, long to be with her in church at home, 27-29 2nd Lieutenant, Roswell Farnham, Co. D, 1st Vermont Infantry, Big Bethel, political generals, nature of battle, 30-32 Musician James E. Hart, Co. B, 2nd Vermont Infantry, lonesome for woman back home, 32-33 Private James W. Bromley, Co. B, 2nd Vermont Infantry, confidence about advance to Manassas, Confederate prisoners, 35-36 2nd Lieutenant Chester K. Leach, Co. B, 2nd Vermont Infantry, First Bull Run, casualties, disgraced by the affair, 37-38 Private Elijah S. Brown, Co. F, 2nd Vermont Infantry, First Bull Run, casualties, 38-39 Willliam Young Ripley, marble quarry owner, First Bull Run, government needs to be harder on Confederates, war of the people, leaders at Washington could be replaced by a Cromwell or a Napoleon, 40-41 Private Solomon Heaton, Co. D, 3rd Vermont Infantry, departure of troops, cheering, 42 Corporal Henry E. Dunbar, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, hot weather, water, food, 43-44 Private Moses A. Parker, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, skirmish, sleeping on picket, arrest, 45-46 Private William B. Stevens, Co. G, 4th Vermont Infantry, troops moving, duty, 49 Musician George H. Randall, Co. D, 4th Vermont Infantry, death and disease in the regiment, 50 Corporal Henry H. Wilder, Co. F, 5th Vermont Infantry, dead soldier sent home, measles, fever, 51 2nd Lieutenant Samuel Sumner, Co. D, 5th Vermont Infantry, newspapers, clothing, tents, fireplace, death from fever, hard life of soldier, 52-53 Perry Ayer, Co. C, 6th Vermont Infantry, advice from brother at home, not old enough to enlist, temptation, alcohol, gambling, 53-54 William Wells, Co. C, 1st Vermont Cavalry, getting ready to depart, men ask to go to town, 54- 55 Private Hiram M. Hunter, Co. D, Fifth Vermont Infantry, soldier death, fever, God’s will, 56 Adjutant Charles E. Parker, 7th Vermont Infantry, officer election, staking out camp, 59-60 Private Justus F. Gale, Co. A, 8th Vermont Infantry, Henry and Donelson, food, vaccination, 60- 61 Jerusha M. Hubbard, musician, 2nd Vermont Light Artillery, advice from mother, warns him of bad society, 61-62 Private William H. Daniels, Co. I, 1st Vermont Cavalry, journey to Washington, camped near a graveyard, Annapolis, sabre drill, Roanoke victory, Fort Donelson, effects of slavery, 65 Private Stephen H. Brockway, Co. G, 4th Vermont Infantry, advises people not to enlist, stealing milk, 65

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Private George M. Lampher, Co. D, 5th Vermont Infantry, Alexandria, Ellsworth, McClellan, trusts God, 67-68 Lieutenant William Y. W. Ripley, 1st Sharpshooters, poor organization, arms, photograph, 68-69 Captain William Wells, Co. C, 1st Vermont Cavalry, railroad, burned bridges, colonel wounded, 73-74 Peninsula campaign, 74ff Corporal Henry E. Dunbar, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, Lee’s Mills, wounded casualties, 74-75 Captain George Quimby, Co. D, 4th Vermont Infantry, earthworks, Baldy Smith drunk, Lee’s Mills, 76 Adjutant General Charles E. Parker, 7th Vermont Infantry, food, alligators, snakes, 77-78 Adjutant General John Lester Barstow, 8th Vermont Infantry, New Orleans captured, 78- Food prices, poor people, slaves, 79 Private Moses A. Parker, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, Richmond, McClellan, has seen all the dead Confederates, he wants to see, asked prayers for himself, 80-81 Private Henry A. Smith, Co. E, 1st Vermont Cavalry, Banks, 1862 Valley campaign, women fire at soldiers and are killed, 81-82 Aldis O. Brainerd, civilian recently resigned, near Richmond, little morality in the army, 83-84 2nd Lieutenant Alfred Horton Keith, Co. K, 6th Vermont Infantry, Seven Days, wounded, 92-94 Musician Jonathan Remington, Co. E, 5th Vermont Infantry, Seven Days, heavy fire, casualties, 94 Sergeant Rollin M. Green, Co. I, 7th Vermont Infantry, Vicksburg, disease, canal, 95-96 Sergeant John F. Cook, Co. I, 3rd Vermont Infantry, Seven Days, Gaines’s Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, alcohol in Confederate canteens, sight of the battlefield, 96-98 William C. Holbrook, 7th Vermont Infantry, to his father the governor, Baton Rouge, battle, casualties, 99-100 2nd Lieutenant, John Q. Dickinson, 7th Vermont Infantry, Co. C, Carrollton, La., defends regiment, battle of Baton Rouge, Butler, 100-2 2nd Lieutenant Avery B. Cain, 4th United States Infantry, Second Bull Run, McDowell, McClellan, wounded, casualties, Pope, 102-4 Sergeant, Walter W. Smith, Co. H, 2nd United States Sharpshooters, Antietam, 104-6 Captain Valentine G. Barney, Co. A, 9th Vermont Infantry, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, prisoner, Camp Parole, 107-8 Corporal George J. Howard, Co. G, 5th Vermont Infantry, Confederates love alcohol, Confederate blamed South Carolina for the war, poorly clothes, grisly corpses, Stonewall Jackson, 113-15 Private Willard M. Thayer, Co. B, 10th Vermont Infantry, death and burial, unfeeling surgeons, 115-16 Private Richard J. Irwin, Co. C, 12th Vermont Infantry, Vermont Brigade, Washington, Ball’s Bluff battlefield, 117 Asabel Hubbard to his brother in 2nd Vermont Light Artillery, alcohol, tending stock in the snow, 118-19 Chaplain Edward P. Stone, 6th Vermont Infantry, sabbath, little use for chaplains in army, 119- 20 Sergeant William B. Stevens, 4th Vermont Infantry, Co. G, Fredericksburg, casualties, hospitals, 121-22

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Private James W. Bromley, Co. B, 2nd Vermont Infantry, Fredericksburg, blames Stanton, Congress and Lincoln, no many capable of commanding such a large army, Burnside, 122-23 Henrietta M. Parker, to her son, Co. E, 7th Vermont Infantry, wants son out of the army, Christmas, 124-25 Lieutenant Colonel Roswell Farnham, 12th Vermont Infantry, women in camp, called out against Confederate cavalry, Jeb Stuart, 125-27 Henry McAllister, Co. G, 4th Vermont Infantry, Fredericksburg, wounded, hospital, amputation, wooden leg, 130-31 Esther Thayer to her husband in Co. B, 10th Vermont Infantry, peace prospects, lives lost, 131- 32 Sergeant Frederick, Godfrey, Co. 4, 4th Vermont Infantry, Mud March, injury to one soldier’s legs, deserters, soldiers as tools, critical of military policy, 132-33 Frankky Brown to her brother, Co. F, 2nd Vermont Infantry, brother ill, she wishes she could care for him, broke off relationship with doctor, 133-34 Captain Valentine G. Barney, Co. A, 9th Vermont Infantry, Camp Douglas, many Confederate prisoners dying, sutler, 135-36 Corporal George J. Howard, Co. G, 5th Vermont Infantry, skin a dog and fool another regiment into thinking it was a sheep, which was then eaten, 136-37 Private Peter M. Abbott, Co. K, 3rd Vermont Infantry, snowball fight, black eyes, bloody noses, 138 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings, 16th Vermont Infantry, Fitzhugh Lee raid, officers captured, 139-40 Major William Wells, 1st Vermont Cavalry, taken prisoner by Mosby’s men, 140-41 Commissary Sergeant Lorentio H. King, 1st Vermont Cavalry, men captured by Mosby, furlough, horse, hates black people, 141-43 William C. Holbrook, 7th Vermont Infantry, Butler court of inquiry, battle of Baton Rouge, 148- 49 Lieutenant Joseph Spafford, Co. E, 16th Vermont Infantry, photographs, three years men criticize the nine months men, bounty, 149-50 Corporal Dan Mason, Co. D, 6th Vermont Infantry, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, pontoons, 151-52 Private Hosea B. Williams, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, Vermont Brigade, Chancellorsville, casualties, 153-54 Ashbel Hubbard writing to his brother in 2nd Vermont Light Artillery, income tax, farming, 154- 56 Private Royal D. King, Co. D, 14th Vermont Infantry, movement of army, , march, sunstroke, Hooker, 156-57 Private Justus F. Gale, Co. A, 8th Vermont Infantry, Port Hudson, 157-59 Lieutenant Colonel William D. Munson, 13th Vermont Infantry, Gettysburg campaign, General Stannard, 159-60 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings, 16th Vermont Infantry, Gettysburg, Confederate artillery fire, July 2-3, cries of the wounded, Doubleday, Stannard, 165-70 Private Royal D. King, Co. D, 14th Vermont Infantry, Gettysburg, one great hospital, marching, heat, the wounded, 170-72 Jonathan V. Allen, Co. H, 8th Vermont Infantry, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Gardner, Banks, 173

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Sergeant Dan Mason, Co. D, 6th Vermont Infantry, fight at Boonesboro, casualties, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, draft riots, 174-75 Assistant Surgeon Cornelius Chapin, 6th Vermont Infantry, escape of Lee, Confederate entrenchments, Confederate deserters, cavalry charge at Gettysburg, Copperhead, Fernando Wood, Horatio Seymour, pontoon, 175-77 Private Henry J. Vaughn, Co. E, 6th Vermont Infantry, conscript, could only get off by bribing the doctor; 177-78 Sergeant Perry A. Baker, 2nd Vermont Light Artillery, scout, skirmish at Jackson, Louisiana, prisoners, 178 Private Peter M. Abbott, Co. K, 3rd Vermont Infantry, complains of food, no rations until late, complains of officers who have large tents, 179 Private Edwin Horton, Co. C, 4th Vermont Infantry, soldier pay, guard house, 180-81 Hosea B. Williams, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, conscripts and substitutes, expects another battle on the Rapidan, 181-82 Major Stephen M. Pingree, 4th Vermont Infantry, court martial, substitutes, deserters, 186-87 Sergeant William B. Stevens, Assistant Quartermaster’s Office, Second Division, Sixth Corps, court martial, Quakers, 187-89 Horace A. Putnam, civilian in quartermaster’s department, Second Division, Sixth Corps, kicked by a horse, guerrillas capture our men, 189-90 Private Charles B. Chapin, Co. L, 1st Vermont Cavalry, horses, skirmish, Custer, 191-93 Sergeant Henry McAllister, Co. G, 4th Vermont Infantry, prisoner, wounded, college, 193-95 Sergeant Walter W. Smith, Co. H, 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters, skirmish near Rapidan, wounded chaplain Lorenzo Barber, Thanksgiving, 195-96 Assistant Surgeon Joseph C. Rutherford, 10th Vermont Infantry, Thanksgiving, Wilderness, Orange Grove, Mine Run, feeling in battle, 197-200 Lieutenant Colonel Samuel E. Pingree, 3rd Vermont Infantry, brags on Vermont supplying troops, final year of war, 204-5 Captain Arthur P. More, Co. F, 22nd USCT, racial attitudes toward his troops, discipline, 206 Lieutenant Colonel Valentine G. Barney, 9th Vermont Infantry, Morehead City, retreat in North Carolina, 207 Reverend Charles C. Parker, Christian Commission, chapel tent, prayer meeting, Meade, 208- 211 Private Charles Tillison, Co. E, 2nd Vermont Infantry, alcohol, box, 211 Private Loudon S. Langley, Co. B, 54th Massachusetts Infantry, black soldiers, soldier pay, Jacksonville, Florida, 211-14 Susan Dewey, Montpelier to husband quartermaster, 8th Vermont Infantry, soldier pay, bounty, Wendell Phillips lecture, southerners, Governor Hahn, Red River, 214-16 Major William Wells, 1st Vermont Cavalry, Grant, Kilpatrick raid, 216-18 Sergeant William B. Stevens, Co. G, 4th Vermont Infantry, prisoner, camp Parole, nearly died, food, lice, exchange of black soldiers, slaves, patriotism, 218-19 Private Tabor Parcher, Co. B, 10th Vermont Infantry, box, cost of sending, women and sex, not many revivals, 225-26 Overland campaign, 227ff Private Bradford P. Sparrow, Co. K, 4th Vermont Infantry, Overland campaign, terrible battle, 227

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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings, 17th Vermont Infantry, Wilderness, casualties, hospital, high mortality among officers, prisoners, 227-30 Private Eri D. Woodbury, Co. E, 1st Vermont Cavalry, skirmish, Haxall’s Landing, 230-31 Lieutenant Colonel Valentine G. Barney, 9th Vermont Infantry, North Carolina, brother’s death, we cannot know when death will come, many people he knew killed or wounded, 231-32 Private Lous Lavallée of Montreal, Co. B, 17th Vermont Infantry, Washington Hospital, Wilderness wounded?, 233 Margaret Scott, husband Co. G, 3rd Vermont Infantry, dead, Spotsylvania Courthouse, 233-34 Major William Wells, 1st Vermont Cavalry, colonel’s death, Salem Church, 234-35 Private Tabor Parcher, Co. B, 10th Vermont Infantry, earthworks, effects of army on the environment, Grant and Meade, truce, fraternization, bullet whizzing around his head, 235-37 1st Lieutenant George G. Howe, Co. B, 11th Vermont Infantry, Cold Harbor, casualties, old soldiers laughed at new soldiers, 237-38 Rachel Stevens, chaplain, death, of son?, 239 Private James Frank Drenan, Co. I, 11th Vermont Infantry, company captured and sent of Richmond, 240 Private Henry P. Burnham, Co. G, 10th Vermont Infantry, skirmishing, wounded soldier, Monocacy, 245-48 Corporal Thomas Wiswell, Co. I, 1st Vermont Cavalry, Wilson-Kautz raid, casualties, 248-49 Private Henry H. Lewis, Co. H, 11th Vermont Infantry, prisoner, Andersonville, photograph, box, clothes, 249-50 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings, 17th Vermont Infantry, Petersburg, Crater, mine, casualties, health, 250-51 Captain Darius J. Stafford, Co. I, 11th Vermont Infantry, taken prisoner, Libby, robbed, food, water, escape, helped by slaves, 251-53 Corporal Peter M. Abbott, Co. K, 3rd Vermont Infantry, swimming, conscription, reenlistment, election of 1864, Lincoln, 253-54 Silas Hall, Co. G, 10th Vermont Infantry, town meeting, war tax, bounties, patriotism, furloughs, 254-55 Quartermaster, Edward Dewey, 8th Vermont Infantry, 1864 Valley campaign, battle, 256-57 Corporal George J. Howard, Co. G, 5th Vermont Infantry, 1864 Valley campaign, Tom’s Brook, Confederate buried a Union soldier with his head out of the ground, others murdered, , burning and destruction, women and children, 264-67 Ann Pierce, St. Albans raid, Confederate officers, casualties, 267-68 Ann Eliza Smith, St. Albans Raid, 269-70 Colonel William Wells, 1st Vermont Cavalry, Middletown, Virginia, pickets attacked, seeking appointment, Custer, 170-71 Musician Willard G. Smith, Co. C, 8th Vermont Infantry, Cedar Creek, Sheridan, casualties, wounded men, amputations, chloroform, 272-76 Ben H. Dewey, Waterford, burials at home, St. Albans, arms, strangers riding around, 277-78 Corporal Isaac N. Watts, Co. M, 11th Vermont Infantry, 1864 Valley campaign, soldiers and election of 1864, McClellan voters, 278-79 Captain Darius J. Safford, Co. L, 11th Vermont Infantry, Petersburg, deserters, execution, Thomas and Nashville, 280-81 Sergeant Londus W. Haskell, Co. I, 11th Vermont Infantry, Weldon railroad, Confederate deserters, shanty, wood, 284-85

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Private Moses A. Parker, Co. H, 2nd United States Sharpshooters, deserter execution, 285-86 Private Henry E. Dunbar, Co. A, 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, peace, Hampton Roads conference, slavery dead, food, 287-88 Assistant Surgeon, Joseph C. Rutherford, 10th Vermont Infantry, hospital, Lewis A. Grant, war nearly over, fraternization, trade, soap, deserter, 288-90 Private Edwin C. Hall, Co. G, 10th Vermont Infantry, Petersburg, battle, charge on Confederate lines, Lincoln appearance, 290-91 Lieutenant Colonel Valentine G. Barney, 9th Vermont Infantry, Lincoln cheered, Ord, Gibbon, Mary Lincoln, Fort Stedman attack, 292 Lieutenant Colonel Valentine G. Barney, 9th Vermont Infantry, breakthrough at Petersburg, Richmond, 296 Captain Arthur P. Morey, Co. F, 22nd USCT, Babylon fallen, Richmond, 296-97 Private Oren C. Mudge, Co. G, 5th Vermont Infantry, death of husband. Mortally wounded, Richmond fallen, 297-98 Private Edwin C. Hall, Co. G, 10th Vermont Infantry, Petersburg breakthrough, 398-300 Ann Eliza Smith, St. Albans, Appomattox, Lincoln assassination, Stanton, traitors, 301-2 Private Henry E. Dunbar, Co. C, 3rd Vermont Infantry, Lincoln assassination, hatred for the rebellion, Andrew Johnson, Washington, 302-4 Catherine E. Parker, Burlington, Lincoln assassination, church services, 304-6 Surgeon Joseph C. Rutherford, 17th Vermont Infantry, providence, Sherman mistake, need to be tough on traitors, 306-7 Private Bradford Sparrow, Co. D, 4th Vermont Infantry, Parole hospital, Jacksonville, Andersonville, 308-9 Appendix with short biographies of all the letter writers—very useful

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