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In the Civil War, recruitment was highly regionalized, and posters specific to Vermont used language that they knew would appeal to Vermonters. They sought Morgan horses for cavalry, sharpshooters from farmers’ sons, and directly called to a Vermont identity and sense of pride as Green Mountain Boys.
Vermont soldiers in the Civil War wrote an enormous quantity of letters and diaries, of which many thousands have survived in libraries, historical societies, and in private hands. This collection represents a selection of letters and diaries from the University of Vermont and the Vermont Historical Society.
22 lis 2020 · Some of his photographs show scenes from the war: a view of the giant tent city that was a Civil War encampment; sets of large chimneys that marked where intact buildings had stood before...
3 paź 2014 · Oct 19, 1864 saw a dramatic reversal of fortunes during the Civil War's Battle of Cedar Creek. A surprise attack by Confederate forces appeared to be a solid victory for the South, but a dramatic rally by the Union army reclaimed the battlefield for the North.
30 mar 2014 · Montages of tintype portraits of Vermont’s Civil War officers lined the major corridor of the Statehouse for more than 80 years.
5 lis 2018 · Photograph shows montage of portraits of Lawrence Swinyer, who served in the War of 1812, and his sons who all served in the Civil War: John Swinyer of Co. B, 9th Vermont Infantry Regiment and...
24 cze 2016 · Vermont sent far more sharpshooters to the Union armies than any other state, on a per capita basis. By the hundreds, Vermont marksmen passed the rigorous marksmanship test to join one of three Vermont companies.
