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A Soldier Shoots Himself In The Hand
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| War date Union soldier letter by Pvt. Amasa Richards, 11th Minnesota, South Tunnel, Tennessee, March 6, 1865, 4pp. octavo, with cover, in part: "... There is a great many soldiers going to the front now, some days there is two or three thousand in one day. They are going to the front, they go to Thomas' army. They are going to form part of an expedition...I forgot in my last letter that the 11th Regt belongs to the 20th Army Corps known as Slocum's. The rest of the corps is with Sherman. General Rowan is our division commander. One of the soldiers of Co. K shot himself in his hand yesterday...The Chaplain was here last night he preached last evening this morning he went to Gallatin. On the night 25th of Feb the Guerillas tore up the rail road track up in the edge of Kentucky and then off the cars they burned the cars and killed some of the men after they had surrendered and took some of the best horses and rode off...The Guerillas are getting to be quite thick nowadays four crossed the railroad on the 5th about three miles from here......" Fine. | |||||||||||
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