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Photographs of Atlanta and environs during occupation by Federal Troops

Unmounted photograph of the Railroad Depot in Atlanta Georgia during Union occupation in the Fall of 1864.

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Photographs of Atlanta and environs during occupation by Federal Troops

Unmounted photograph of of unknown men and cannons taken in Atlanta Georgia during Union occupation in the Fall of 1864.

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to Richard H. Jackson

He writes that the wounded and disabled are now coming in the thousands, mainly from McClellan. His father and wife are healthy but his father worries about him.

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to Richard H. Jackson

He writes that that he is very well and describes various tomfoolery such as dressing up in women's clothes and running out in the street where he talked to another girl and told her to call him Alice,

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to Richard H. Jackson

He mentions a letter from Charlie that describes a battle in Fredericksburg. He insists that Richard would like country life if he had not only experienced the hardships.

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to Richard H. Jackson

He dreamt there had been a battle of Chattanooga. Even though Pemberton is dead, he dreamt he commanded the rebel forces and was defeated. He tells Richard about the shoe business and the different ladies that come into his shop.

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to Richard H. Jackson

He writes there is great anxiety over the fall of Sumter which appears to hold out. He also mentions a party for Mrs. Watson that has been postponed.

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to Richard H. Jackson

He writes that the wounded of his regiment have come into town. The last page is an army song called "Marching Song."

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to Uncle Frye

In Boston they were presented with a flag by the Hon. R.C Winthrop. In New York they were invited to the 5th Avenue Hotel where they heard James G. Brady speak and were presented with another flag. They also passed through Philadelphia, Baltimore and...

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to Sister Sophia

The weather is getting colder and he has a cold in his head. When he is on guard he will think of waltzing with her, Written in Camp Jackson, also known as Fort Jackson

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to Much Respected Cousin

They are building a brigade bakery. If Charleston falls, there may be more fighting. He tells his cousin if he goes to Middlebury, he may use his rifle until he gets back

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to Mother

He describes the difficult march they have had along the Rappahanock. They are now camped in the Bull Run battlefield. Written near Warrenton, Virginia.

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to Bro. Sherman

He mentions several friends that have been discharged like Doody, Maxim, O'Donanhue and Charlie. He mentions the doctors and nurses at the hospital and how at one point there were nearly a thousand patients.

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to Sister

He mentions the Battle of Gettysburg and how they had a hard fight but it is all right now. He also mentions Edgar Crockett and John Cobble.

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to Sister Sophia

He describes the dead from the Battle of Bull Run. The bodies are spread out in deplorable condition and in many cases their bones are thrown carelessly over the ground. He also talks abotu the gorilla bands

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to Annie S. Brown

Written on a receipt-roll for soldier rations. He writes that on the morning of the eleventh they charged on Fort Wagner and lost 400 men in 5 minutes. Her cousin John R. Muney was wounded.

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to Sister Sophia

They received the news of the capture of Island Noll. Later they say that if General Abercrombie had followed orders they may have been involved in a great battle He teases his sister about having a lover.

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French Reserves Watching Their Comrades Going Into "The Valley of the Shadow"

French soldiers stand in front of a desolate field, watching their fellow soldiers march to the front.

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His Last Fight--"See he lies, death staring from his eyes"--Somewhere in France.

A dead soldier, his nationality is unable to identify as his helmet is missing and his uniform obscured by rubble, lies at the bottom of a trench.

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French Mine Explosion under Enemy Trenches

A soldier looks across a desolate field at smoke billowing from an exploding German trench.

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Chemin de Dames--Barbed Wire Entaglement

A rusting, barbed wire fence that has become entangled with the undergrowth on the site of a battlefield at Chemin des Dames in France.

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Desolate Waste on Chemin des Dames Battlefield, France

A soldier stands amongst the now desolate countryside and fallen trees after the battles at Chemin des Dames in France

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Camouflaged Trenches in Chemin des Dames Sector

A lieutenant of the Allied forces stands in a trench at Chemin des Dames. Behind him, chicken wire interwoven with pine and hemlock, covers the opening of the trench, to prevent enemy planes from spotting the trench from above.

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Weird Desolation of Berry au Bac, after Four Years of Fighting, France

The destroyed countryside of Berry au Bac at the end of the war.

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"Through it all like horror, runs the red resentment of the guns." Oise, France.

French soldiers man enormous field guns from a ditch near the Oise, in France.

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