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Welcome to 'Vermont in the Civil War,' a grassroots project documenting the story of the State's contributions to the war, and what happened to the participants during and after the war.
We are not a genealogy project. The only research we do is to determine the details of the soldiers' service, their dates of birth and death, and their final resting place. If you have biographical information you'd like to share, please contact us.
The project was started in 1996, with one photograph and 82 names, has grown tremendously over the last 17 years, and continues to do so. To date, we have documented over 35,000 veterans, 3,100 who were drafted but did not serve and a number of related civilians.
More than 28,000 served in Vermont units. Another 7,000+ served in the regular Army, Navy and Marine Corps, or in units in other states. At least 50 served in the Confederacy. More than 2,300 served in two or more units. The civilians we included were state and federal employees involved in the war effort, nurses, sutlers, and members of the Christian and Sanitary Commissions.
In 2013, 109,877 people visited the site, and it received more than two million hits. This past October, 10,115 people visited 24,175 times, an daily average of 779 guests! Based on feedback we have received, visitors include family genealogists, historians, Civil War buffs, teachers, students, and the occasional Rebel.
More than 4,275 folks have registered as descendants of these veterans.
Who are we? First and foremost, volunteers. No one gets paid anything. More than 300 individuals have donated material, written biographies, transcribed obituaries and taken photographs of headstones across the country. Three individuals have taken more than 2,000 cemetery photographs each. One individual has transcribed more 750 obituaries, another more than 650. Some take lists we provide and go out and take photographs. Others spend significant amounts of time finding the final resting place of these veterans before going out and photographing their graves.
But, there are still gaps. We still don't know what happened to nearly 5,600 of the soldiers, sailors and marines who served. For some, we have nothing at all post-war, for others, just a date when and/or a location where they were last noted living. For about half, we know their final resting place and have photographs of their graves, or links to sites like Findagrave.com. We are working on it, but we could use more help. Interested?
Please join us!
Tom Ledoux, Expatriate Green Mountain Boy, Webmaster
Random tidbit:
Vermont Surgeon Henry Janes, getting personal in his obituary of fellow surgeon Charles M. Chandler: "we camped on the same cold and soaking ground; we marched through nights seemingly interminable, when human endurance was stretched to its utmost; we walked through the same miasmatic swamps, and rivers of mud; we were near each other in the same shower of hissing bullets, and screaming shells; during the horrid nights after the battles we worked together among the same crowds of mangled and dying humanity; we toiled side by side for many long days among the festering and gangrenous wounds of the soldiers hastily gathered up from the battle fields or famishing in the enemy's lines; and we were together among the fevered and infected sick, in the more permanent hospitals."
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