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Vermont’s Remarkable Sharpshooters

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June 14: 7:00 pm

Vermont sent far more sharpshooters to the Union armies than any other state, on a per capita basis. By the hundreds, Vermont marksmen passed the rigorous marksmanship test to join one of three Vermont companies. And sharpshooters from this state played a little-known but major role at Gettysburg, the great Union victory that changed the Civil War’s course.

Historian Howard Coffin will discuss his recent research into this little -recognized group and consider the reasons why Vermont may have been so well-represented in this elite group of marksmen.

 

About the Speaker

Image of Howard CoffinA seventh-generation Vermonter, Howard Coffin is the author of four books on the Civil War: Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today’s Vermont; Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War; Nine Months to Gettysburg; and The Battered Stars, as well as Guns Over the Champlain Valley, a book on military sites along the Champlain Corridor.

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Date:
June 14
Time:
7:00 pm
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Organizer

Georgeana Little
Email:
rgtle@stoweaccess.com

Venue

Cambridge Historical Society
49 School St
Jeffersonville, VT 05464 United States
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