Major, later Brevet Brigadier General, Edward Hastings Ripley, 9th Vermont, while the regiment was on parole at Camp Douglass, near Chicago, Illinois, noted in a letter to his mother, 4 February 1863, that there were 15 Vermonters among the Confederate prisoners they were guarding.

Source: Ripley, Edward Hastings. Vermont general: the unusual war experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley, 1862-1865. Edited by Otto Eisenschiml. New York, Devin-Adair, 1960., page 73.

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