Made Here
Death in the Wilderness: A Love Story
Season 3 Episode 25 | 51m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
A widow searches for body of Vermont Regiment solider killed in 1864 battle.
Capt. George Davenport of the 5th Vermont Regiment was fatally wounded on, May 5th, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness, and hastily buried in a Virginia cornfield. A year later his young widow Frankie from Brandon set out in search of his body, but finding her husband was only the beginning of her story. For the rest of her life she devoted herself to the memory of Vermont's soldier.
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Made Here is a local public television program presented by Vermont Public
Sponsored in part by the John M. Bissell Foundation, Inc. and the Vermont Arts Council| Learn about the Made Here Fund
Made Here
Death in the Wilderness: A Love Story
Season 3 Episode 25 | 51m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
Capt. George Davenport of the 5th Vermont Regiment was fatally wounded on, May 5th, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness, and hastily buried in a Virginia cornfield. A year later his young widow Frankie from Brandon set out in search of his body, but finding her husband was only the beginning of her story. For the rest of her life she devoted herself to the memory of Vermont's soldier.
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