Letters of George E. Chamberlin of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, written while a student at Dartmouth College, as a law clerk in St. Louis, as a graduate student at Harvard Law School and as a Union officer during the Civil War, until he died in the field of battle in 1864. Letters give a full picture of his college life, depict St. Louis in mid-nineteenth century, and touch on experiences in his graduate studies. Civil War correspondence is vivid and detailed about camp life in his postings at Fort Lincoln, D.C., Fort Totten, D.C. and Fort Slemmer, D.C., including descriptions of Washington, D.C., shaking Lincoln’s hand, a small-pox outbreak, court martial proceedings, building winter quarters, instructing in drilling and artillery, and his meeting and marrying Adelia Gardiner. The rest of the Chamberlin letters, mostly written in the 1860s, are those of his family, particularly between his sisters Caroline and Mary.