Soldiers

War and Industry
1860-1910

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Civil War

No More Compromising

The War Begins

Attack on St. Albans

Vermont's War Hospitals

Women on the Homefront

Soldiers

Railroads Come to Vermont

Introduction

Riot Near Bolton Flats

Wrecks and Disasters

Railroad Timeline

Arrivals and Departures

Write a Letter to your Ancestors

Vermont's Changing Landscape

Introduction

Industrialized Vermont

Introduction

Cheese Butter then Milk

Quarries, Mills and Factories

Tools of the Trade

Workers Organize

Contrasting Communities

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True Blake Walter from Burke was a musician. Like many twenty-year-olds he eagerly did his duty when called to service. He enlisted with Company E, Vermont 15th Regiment with some of his friends. He was a fifer. He mustered in at Brattleboro on October 22, 1862 and the regiment was soon shipped off to Washington as part of the Second Vermont Brigade. Camp life was unhealthy and many Vermonters came down with malaria. Walter died in camp on January 2, 1863 from disease. His family always claimed that he died from homesickness.