October 4, 1863
Richmond, Indiana My dear Mother, At a town where the train paused a few moments – say half an hour – just before sunset, Xenia Ohio, we had a perfect ovation. Ladies, Gentlemen & Children...
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October 19, 1863
Bridgeport, Ala. Dearest, Yesterday I was lucky enough to get a letter dated the 9th it was nine days on the way. You last said Jamie had begun to recover, but he hadn't gotten full use of his fist...
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Ocotber 24, 1863
Headquarters Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland, Bridgeport Dearest, We received a letter written to Chm. and mailed Oct. 16 - It had reached him in eight days and I am glad to hear Jamie is so...
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Dearest We have passed through another encounter with the enemy and providentially have escaped unharmed. My Corps left Bridgeport on Tuesday the 27th and marched some fifteen or sixteen miles encamped...
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November 12, 1863
Lookout Valley, Tenn. My Dear boy, I have just received a letter from Mamma. She says Guy has improved in reading. I am glad to hear this for a poor reader seems like a poor scholar. In this part of...
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Headquarters Eleventh Corps Lookout Valley My dear brother, [...] They fire every day more or less. Yesterday a Shell buried itself three feet in the ground within a dozen yards of where Otis & I...
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December 5, 1863
Grafton, West Virginia My dear General: Allow me to tender you congratulations with the rest of your friends, on the new laurels you have won for yourself and your command in the late battles that...
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Hd. qrs. 11th Corps Lookout Valley My dear Mother I often write you hurried and I fear very unsatisfactory letters. I keep my own conscience clear by reasoning that if I waited for suitable...
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Washington Dear Father, I have just received some papers from you for which I am exceedingly obliged. Although I am not idle out here, yet the time frequently hangs heavy upon me and I am glad, in...
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Hd. qrs. 11th Corps Lookout Valley Tenn My dear Mother I would like to transcribe for you my exact feelings and circumstances tonight – for they are altogether such that if you were to know them...
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