VERMONT

From her scattered villages Vermont furnished 33,288 men for the Union cause. Out of a population of 315,089, this was 10.5%. 619 men wanted to see more of the world and joined the Navy or Marines, and 120 were free African-Americans.

There is scarcely a village green in Vermont that does not have a war memorial listing some of the 5,224 (15.7% of enlistees) who died. 1,809 died from battle, and 486 as prisoner of war; that still left 56% who died from accidents or disease.

Green Mountain State men formed a cavalry regiment, a regiment of heavy artillery, three batteries of light artillery, two companies of sharpshooters, and eighteen infantry regiments.

There were no battles in Vermont, but there was a bank robbery in St. Albans in 1864 that was supposedly to raise money for the Confederacy. The robbers came over the border from Canada, and escaped the same way. How much of the funds went to Confederate causes will never be discovered.

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