- GLC#
- GLC03859.13-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 15, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Churchill, Byron, 1846-?
- Title
- to: Drazilla Churchill.
- Place Written
- Grand Junction, Tenn
- Pagination
- 3 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
A train with 900 prisoners passed through Grand Junction, and another 1500 are waiting to be transported from Holey [Holly] Springs. The 900 passengers cheered Jefferson Davis and the Southern Confederacy upon pulling out of the station. Churchill hears news that "the rebels is About Destitute of Close [clothes] And not much to Eat."
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