Description
Rutherford writes a description of Thanksgiving dinner in camp prepared with the help of the officers' wives, a reference to John Piper his "orderly", of soldiers plans to steal a gun from a neighboring farmer in order to get some turkeys and chickens for the holiday meal, of their arrest, the unpleasant weather, of Rutherford being jaundice and of his black boy Moses being sick and likely to die.
Rutherford, Joseph Chase, 1818-1902 (Author)Rutherford, Hannah (Recipient)
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- Diseases
- Fugitive Slaves
- Maryland
- Military Camps
- Military Life
- Slaver
- Surgeons
- United States
- United States Army
- Women
- Women In War