Charles Chapin Diary - Letter Reveals Hardships of VT. Man in Civil War Prison

 Charles Chapin Diary - Letter Reveals Hardships of VT. Man in Civil War Prison

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Montpelier Evening Argus, March 22, 1940
The hardships endured by a Vermont corporal in a Confederate prison during the Civil War are related tersely but graphically in a long but incomplete letter in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society. The soldier was Charles B. Chapin of Williston, a member of Company L of the Vermont first regiment cavalry. He enlisted as a private in August, 1862, was taken prison in May, 1864, pardoned November, 1864, and died of disease January, 1865.
The letter was apparently written by a mother to her son, George, and was dated Williston, February 10, 1865. The writer quotes at length from the diary of Charles B. Chapin.

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