Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont

by Howard Coffin

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Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil War-related sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls where war meetings encouraged enlistments, churches where soldier funerals were held and abolitionists spoke, monuments to those who served, hospital sites, and homes where women gathered to make items for the soldiers. The Vermont State House is a virtual Civil War museum. A building survives in Woodstock where the war was administered. Cemeteries hold the gravestones of many of the 34,000 who fought. A field even exists where in 1803 a Quaker preacher heard a voice from above fortell a bloody war over slavery. With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state.
  • ISBN10 0881509817
  • ISBN13 9780881509816
  • Publish Date 4 June 2013 (first published 6 May 2013)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 15 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher WW Norton & Co
  • Imprint Countryman Press Inc.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 528
  • Language English