Raynors HCA 2015-02
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War-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 4to., written by Corp. George P. Jarvis [WIA Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862], Co. C, 3rd Ohio Vols., Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 26, 1863, in part: "…we have hod no more hard fighting since I last wrote…Genl. [William H.] Lytle [is] among the killed [shot in the head and spine]. Maj. Adney is also wounded not dangerously however. A ball struck hid pistol shivering it to atoms and injuring his side…Col. Chas. Grosvenor & Capt. Ed Grosvenor are not injured…in a few days after we get reinforcements that are on the way to join us…Rosie will not remain idle and sure defeat will come upon the enemy. We will drive them right before us…we are bound to give them a thrashing for it is virtually impossible for them to take this place…Chattanooga is certainly a very strong place and if Gen. Bragg's reinforcements had arrived a day or two sooner so that he need not have evacuated the place. We would have had no little difficulty in possessing ourselves of it…in a short time it will rank next to Murfreesboro as the strongest point in the United States…it is the key that will unlock to us the states of Georgia & South Carolina. The papers say that we have been compelled to fall back upon Chattanooga. I cant see it in that light. We console ourselves by saying that it was not a retrograde movement, but that we marched straight ahead to the place…we did not come to Chattanooga in the first place but after the enemy evacuated [it.] We came in between them and the place and to avoid recognizing a defeat we say that our first intention was only to possess ourselves of the place…Chattanooga has been a beautiful place but now like the rest of the Confederacy it is faded and where once the people were wont to pass their time in pleasure…only the rumble of Govnt wagons or the heavy tread of marching columns. Of the country little can be said…with the exception of the Valley of the Tenn., literally a mass of mountains…".
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