| dc.creator | Love, Cyrus W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-11T15:00:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-11T15:00:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | n.d. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/8299 | |
| dc.description | Fragment - end of a letter. Discusses rampant disease in camps, Crittenden's move to South Carrollton, Ky (January 1862), Crittenden's & Zollicoffer's defeat (early January 1862). Says he wrote about Forrest's cavalry forces in previous letter. Letter to the Karners dated January 22, 1862 mentions Forrest. | |
| 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 | Cyrus W. Love to Unknown (possibly John & Bettie Karner) | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dc.description.transcription | (Two pages, continuous. One sheet)
There are none of the Regmt dying at this time I think
and none have died in the last eight or ten days
the Regmt has suffered severe loss of numbers but we have
not suffered as much as a Kentucky Battalion at this
place they have lost as I learn one hundred & the rise since
they came here out of about five hundred. Some of the
Mississippi Regmts have lost none in proportion to
numbers than we have and the people who live here have
been dything of the same diseases.
Our Adjutant has been to Boling Green Nashville &
Clarksville. he says there is no prospect of a fight at Boling G.
that he learned of. While at Nashville a telegraphic dispatch
came from N.O. to the effect that England had recognized the
Southern Confederacy and that it was generally believed at
that place. The movement of Crittnedens forces was not to come
immediately to this place as was thought for a while: they went
to a place (South Carrolton) on Gr[een] River and were there
the last that was known of them what their design is can
hardly be conjectured but we will be able to meet and whip
them let them come which wa[…..]ty may I think.
There are about 25,000 of the enemys forces in near Fort
Henry on the Tennessee River who I think have put
themselves in a rather close place if they could only know it
We have a report here that Price in Missouri has whipped and
captured a force of S 10,000 of the enemy and it is believed but
may not be true: there is also a report that a battle has been fought
and won by the Confederates on the Potomac but this is not believed
There are but six of our company now at Clarksville and but two
in the Hospital at this place. Robt. Williams is in bad health
and has been for some time – he has decreased in flesh very
much – has been sick a long time – nearly ever since we came
here. he does not take as good care of himself as he should and
unless some change takes place I doubt if he will ever get well
Most of the boys of our company are in camp and but few who are
not getting better but there are not more than eight or ten able
to do military duty and none of them much more than able
There are considerable fortifications being made at Clarksville and Nashville.
(Page 2)
The people of the latter place are said to be very much
afraid the enemy will get as far down as that place
but their fears are I think entirely groundless.
After Crittendens and Zollicoffers defeat Crittenden conducted
the retreat of his forces across Cumberland River and has made a
stand in about nineteen miles of the place where the fight took
place with the determination to fight them again he having
received reinforcements will no doubt whip them if they engage
in battle. There will no doubt be some hard fighting as soon as the
weather is suitable for infantry and artillery to move. the weather
at this time is very bad and changes oftener than it does in Texas
it has been raining all day and has sleeted some tonight
it is sleeting and raining together at this time about ten Oclock
I wrote in my last letter to you that Forest’s Cavalry forces had
been out. there is a man with Forest’s forces who fights on his
own hook. When Forrest returned he left this man to watch the
movements of the enemy. he took it into his head to try to kill
some of the enemys pickets at a bridge near where they are now
staying – hiched his horse about three miles from the bridge
and went to it found three of them there killed two of them
broke one of their guns – took the other and came in a day or two
ago – Some other independent men are doing similar acts
What I have written is not of much importance as you will
no doubt have heard the most of it before this reaches you
Burgess is well and doing well he sends his respects to all
Yours fraternally
C.W. Love | |
