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to Nancy E. Jones
8 September 1864
Jones, Joseph, fl. 1862-1865
Marching through Atlanta; Confederate retreat.
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10 September 1864
Irregular mail; expecting to leave Atlanta.
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21 September 1864
Visit to the 57th Indiana volunteers; application for furlough; leaky tents; field chapel.
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30 September 1864
Traveling to Bridgeport; disrupted communication with Nashville due to Confederate cavalry; Lincoln/McClellan election; private apology to his wife; surrender of Vicksburg; Lee's retreat.
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5 October 1864
Furlough still unapproved; bad weather; Sheridan's success in the Shenandoah Valley.
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9 October 1864
Departing for furlough immediately after pay is distributed.
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9-12 November 1864
Journey to rejoin his regiment in Nashville after furlough; Abraham Lincoln's election.
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13 November 1864
Successfully rejoining his regiment after furlough.
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14-16 November 1864
Setting up camp near Pulaski; lack of prayer meetings; gambling by fellow soldiers; reduction in ranks.
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17 November 1864
Incessant rain; washing clothes for other soldiers; sanitary rations; encouraging news in the papers.
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20 November 1864
Orders to march in the morning.
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21 November 1864
Sending his correspondence via William Reedy.
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22-23 November 1864
Cold weather; lice.
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24 November 1864
March to Columbia.
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24-26 November 1864
Encounter with Confederate cavalry and other artillery fire; new conscripts; anticipating battle with Hood's forces; making breastworks in the middle of the night; defense by African American troops.
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circa November 1864
Private correspondence.
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4 April 1865
Details of his capture, imprisonment at Andersonville, and release.
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13 April 1865
Lack of correspondence.
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30 April 1865
Hopes of being mustered out.
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13 June 1865
Arrival without furlough papers; commutation of rations. Written at the Benton Barracks Union Military Camp
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14 June 1865
Requesting furlough papers; his discharge. Written at the Benton Barracks Union Military Camp
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to Nancy E. Jones [incomplete]
1861-1865
Likenesses of his children; plans to send money home when it is safe; taking of Charleston and Generals Lee and Rosecrans; Confederates switching sides.
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Devotion to his family; unchristian behavior of fellow soldiers; his diary.
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Inquiring after presents for Phebe Jane.
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to Phebe Jane Jones
With hand-shaped paper cut-out.
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