| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-11T14:56:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-11T14:56:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | n.d. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/8297 | |
| dc.description | Fragment - beginning of a letter. Possibly during recuperation from wound (1862) | |
| dc.format | PDF, 600dpi | |
| dc.format.medium | Paper | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.relation | Love Family Letters (MS 001) | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any photograph. | |
| dc.source | Box 001, Unnumbered | |
| dc.subject | Civil War | |
| dc.title | Unsigned (Cyrus?) to parents | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dc.description.transcription | (Four pages, continuous front and back. One sheet. Bottom half and part of the top torn off.)
Dear parents:
This leaves me in tolerable goo health but
yet undetermined whether to join this (Col. Whartons Reg [..]
or to go and join Stones Regmt so that I might be
with Saml. & John if they are alive of which I am [..]
somewhat doubtful if they were in the fight when
McCulloch and McIntosh were killed from all
I can learn it was a severe fight and continue [..]
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(Page 2)
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[…] enemy they are also well armed and we have a good
many cannon of all sorts of sizes – I am of the opinion
that Genl Buel and Genl Grant have joined their
[fo]rces and now have on the Tenn River about twenty
[…] miles North of where I am 130,000 to 150,000 this time – Grants forces came
[…] River on One Hundred and Sixty transport boats of
[…..] kinds – Buels made a grand movement from Nashville
[…….] twenty days ago coming in this direction – they are
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(Page 3)
Tenn who act as spies and informers for the Yankee
army and thereby been the cause of a good many of our
sick soldiers to be taken as well as a good many of the
more prominent citizens. They got information at
one place between Nashville and Murfresborough and
went fifteen miles off the road to make a prominent
Secessionist a prisoner and with him they got five
sick soldiers – I as I have before told you was at old Mr
Pettys about five miles from a little R.R. town by
the name of Tulahoma – Six hundred and eighty of
the enemys cavalry came to that place and had been there
nearly twenty four hours before I know anything
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(Page 4)
I understand that Vandorn and Price will possibly
be here with their forces to take part in the fight
if so I will try to see the boys – I also hear that Siegel
with about forty thousand of the enemy are at New
Madrid and with the positions of our forces and the
side will be in the engagement – I have heard that
we have strong batteries below the enemys transports
if this is the case and they are supported by a strong
force of cavalry and infantry there will be no
chance for them to pass down the river to bring
up more forces – I have also learned just a little
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