. Vermont in the Civil War (Volume 1): a history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5 . On the 8th of October, over 200 menwere on the sick list, not a quarter of whom could be accom-modated in the camp hospital—the rest being sent toGeorgetown, Annapolis and Baltimore. Typhus fever pre-vailed to some extent, and occasioned several 9th, the regiment moved out with the other Ver-mont regiments to Camp Griffin, about four miles from ChainBridge. The location was a more wholesome one, and thehealth of the regiment improved somewhat;
. Vermont in the Civil War (Volume 1): a history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5 . On the 8th of October, over 200 menwere on the sick list, not a quarter of whom could be accom-modated in the camp hospital—the rest being sent toGeorgetown, Annapolis and Baltimore. Typhus fever pre-vailed to some extent, and occasioned several 9th, the regiment moved out with the other Ver-mont regiments to Camp Griffin, about four miles from ChainBridge. The location was a more wholesome one, and thehealth of the regiment improved somewhat; but there was agood deal of suffering from want of suitable and sufficientclothing. The tents were thin and leaky, the gray uniformsin which the men left the State had become faded, worn andthin, and there was a lack of drawers and blankets, whichwas seriously felt in the cold and damp nights. The needsof the regiment were so pressing, in these respects, as toform the subject of petitions from the commissioned officersto the Legislature, and of communications from GeneralSmith to the governor, calling the attention of the State. -tixihie Maj. gen. w. F. S \j ITH. THE THIRD REGIMENT. 137 authorities to the subject. It was not easy, however, to pro-vide supplies upon the instant; and though the suffering ofthe men was in part alleviated by private supplies of com-forters, underclothing and warm stockings sent by theirfriends at home, it was nearly the middle of Novemberbefore the regiment was comfortably clothed. By that timethe men were in new uniforms of army blue, and providedwith drawers and blankets by the government, and a week ortwo later were supplied with new tents of the Jamespatent, large, tight and of heavy duck. The general healthof the men improved under these provisions for their healthand comfort, till in a weekly report in Januaiy, but 81 Averereported on the sick list, being but about a third of theaverage proportion of sick in the Vermont brigade. The winter
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