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to Nancy E. Jones

Taking position outside Atlanta; heavy engagement by the 16th and 17th corps with heavy Confederate losses; battle at Peach Creek.

GLC02739.126

to Nancy E. Jones

Surrounding the city and three subsequent engagements; news of mutual acquaintances; rumors of Confederate reinforcements.

GLC02739.127

to Nancy E. Jones

Heavy shelling from Confederate forts; returning fire.

GLC02739.128

to Nancy E. Jones

Possibility of furlough; hopes of taking the city of Atlanta.

GLC02739.129

to Nancy E. Jones

Burning in and around Atlanta and Macon; circular from General Sherman congratulating the soldiers on their success.

GLC02739.130

to Nancy E. Jones

Marching through Atlanta; Confederate retreat.

GLC02739.131

to Nancy E. Jones

Irregular mail; expecting to leave Atlanta.

GLC02739.132

to Nancy E. Jones

Visit to the 57th Indiana volunteers; application for furlough; leaky tents; field chapel.

GLC02739.133

to Nancy E. Jones

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.

GLC02739.134

to Nancy E. Jones

Furlough still unapproved; bad weather; Sheridan's success in the Shenandoah Valley.

GLC02739.135

to Nancy E. Jones

Journey to rejoin his regiment in Nashville after furlough; Abraham Lincoln's election.

GLC02739.137

to Nancy E. Jones

Successfully rejoining his regiment after furlough.

GLC02739.138

to Nancy E. Jones

Setting up camp near Pulaski; lack of prayer meetings; gambling by fellow soldiers; reduction in ranks.

GLC02739.139

to Nancy E. Jones

Incessant rain; washing clothes for other soldiers; sanitary rations; encouraging news in the papers.

GLC02739.140

to Nancy E. Jones

Orders to march in the morning.

GLC02739.141

to Nancy E. Jones

Sending his correspondence via William Reedy.

GLC02739.142

to Nancy E. Jones

Cold weather; lice.

GLC02739.143

to Nancy E. Jones

March to Columbia.

GLC02739.144

to Nancy E. Jones

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.

GLC02739.145

to Nancy E. Jones

Private correspondence.

GLC02739.146

to Nancy E. Jones

Informing Jones's wife of his capture during a battle at Franklin, Tennessee.

GLC02739.147

to Nancy E. Jones

News of Jones's whereabouts.

GLC02739.148

to Nancy E. Jones

Details of his capture, imprisonment at Andersonville, and release.

GLC02739.149

to Nancy E. Jones

News from other prisoners captured at Franklin, but still no word from Jones.

GLC02739.150

to Nancy E. Jones

Lack of correspondence.

GLC02739.151

to Nancy E. Jones

Hopes of being mustered out.

GLC02739.152

to Nancy E. Jones

Arrival without furlough papers; commutation of rations. Written at the Benton Barracks Union Military Camp

GLC02739.153

to Nancy E. Jones

Requesting furlough papers; his discharge. Written at the Benton Barracks Union Military Camp

GLC02739.154

to Nancy E. Jones [incomplete]

Likenesses of his children; plans to send money home when it is safe; taking of Charleston and Generals Lee and Rosecrans; Confederates switching sides.

GLC02739.155

to Nancy E. Jones [incomplete]

Devotion to his family; unchristian behavior of fellow soldiers; his diary.

GLC02739.156

to Nancy E. Jones

Inquiring after presents for Phebe Jane.

GLC02739.157

to Phebe Jane Jones

With hand-shaped paper cut-out.

GLC02739.158

[Map of fortifications]

GLC02739.159

to Nancy E. Jones

He thinks they will stay in Murfreesboro. He would like to know how the Confederates are faring near home.

GLC02739.037

to Nancy E. Jones

There was a very difficult battle but his regiment killed more Confederates than any other. If those she sells crops to will not "take Uncle Sam's money at ful face let them go without it for I don't want to serve in their place and then them not...

GLC02739.038

to Nancy E. Jones

He does not regret joining the army "for it has bin a blessing to me, and I think it wil work out for good to us all in the long run." He will never desert but does not blame anyone for deserting as "our men is meaner than the rebbels."

GLC02739.039

to Nancy E. Jones

He will not pretend to be sick just to get a discharge like many others. He was discouraged after Stones River but is in good spirits again. The fort "is going to be the greatest in the United States when it is done."

GLC02739.040

to Nancy E. Jones

They have marching orders but he hopes they will stay. There are so many dead Confederates in the river that "our men crossed on them dry shod."

GLC02739.041

to Nancy E. Jones

Their orders to leave were countermanded. The graves on the battlefield sadden him to think of all the brave men lost on behalf of their country. The mail was robbed and this letter was taken but he found it floating in the river the next morning.

GLC02739.042

to Nancy E. Jones

"The rebbels is failing in evry sense of the word." The Confederates attacked their pickets but his regiment held them off and will "slay them by the thousands if they try to take this place."

GLC02739.043

to Nancy E. Jones

He is glad she received the 30 dollars he sent. He is sorry for her hardships and "would do anything for you if I could."

GLC02739.044

to Nancy E. Jones

He was detailed and had to leave the 79th to work a twelve pound brass cannon in the 20th Ohio Battery. He does not feel in any more danger as "I can dodge a shell or canon ball some times but a musket ball I can not." The battery consists of two...

GLC02739.045

to Nancy E. Jones

He cannot pray at night in the 20th Ohio and must rely on secret prayer. All the prisoners "that we get say that the rebel armey is both starveing and getting naked for the want of clothes."

GLC02739.046

to Nancy E. Jones

The men and officers of the 20th are all "persecutors of religion" but he will persist in his prayers. They expect a battle soon, "one of thee hardest battles ever fought in America."

GLC02739.047

to Nancy E. Jones

"If general hooker is successful at [Fredericksburg] I think that will end the war." They get good news from the armies of the Mississippi and the Rappahannock every day. He wants a likeness of her and the children. He closes discouraged, having...

GLC02739.048

to Nancy E. Jones

The men of the 20th are by "far mutch the hardest men that I have ever bin with" but they treat him like a gentleman. They no longer expect a fight and he has no doubt "but that our forces have gained a complete victory at fredricksberg."

GLC02739.049

to Nancy E. Jones

"I feel as mutch assured that I will git home alive as mutch as I feel assured that this war will end in the distruction of the southern confederacy." He believes that they will soon have Vicksburg and hopes to move to Fort Donelson soon.

GLC02739.050

to Nancy E. Jones

He thinks the war may end soon but wouldn't be surprised if it lasted a year or two more. Their latest news from Grant is favorable. He will rejoin Company F of the 79th.

GLC02739.051

to Nancy E. Jones

They drove 40,000 Confederates towards Chattanooga and several corps are advancing behind them. Some Confederates say "they want to quit fighting that they have bin deceived long enough by the leaders of the south." He fears the letter will not...

GLC02739.052

to Nancy E. Jones

He has terrible pain in his head and had a tooth removed. He is still with the battery but will be with the regiment soon. "A man cannot git a discharge here until he is four days dead if he wanted it ever so bad."

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