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- GLC#
- GLC04195.27-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 31, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Moore, John, 1826-1907
- Title
- to Mary Moore Kelly
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.7 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Sherman prepares for a large raid (the March to the Sea began Nov. 15). Moore left Atlanta to supervise the transfer of the sick to hospitals further south. He is currently at a garrison 60 miles from Atlanta, near Rome. Written on letterhead from the Medical Director's Office, Headquarters, Department and Army of the Tennessee. "I hear that Jesse Alexander is engaged in making copperhead speeches. It would be beter for him if he had been killed in the trenches while fighting, before ruining himself in this way."
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