Red River Campaign or Will They Move Throughout Alabama & Mississippi?

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A good war-date Union soldier's letter, (with soldier's artwork), 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Jerry M. Cramlett (Jeremy W. Cranibett in CW database), Co. I, 72nd Illinois Vols., Vicksburg, Miss., Mar. 8, 1864 addressed to Ellen "Nellie" Sherman, in part: "…some say we are going up Red river…the Eleventh Ill. Reg have had a fight & most of them were taken prisoner. They were at Yazoo City. The expedition that left here some time ago has returned. Our troops went to Meridian. That is on the line that divides the state of Alabama & Georgia. One hundred & seventy miles E of Burg. We captured some 12 hundred prisoners…J. M. Cramblet, Hd. Qrs. 1st Division 17th Army Corps, Vicksburg, Mississippi.". VG.

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