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- GLC#
- GLC06157.07-View header record
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 22 July 1864
- Title
- Smith's Expedition Battle of Tupelo
- Place Written
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 36.8 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Letter written by "F.H." (possibly Frederick Humphrey, chaplain of the 12th Iowa Regiment who was mustered into the regiment on 23 June 1864). "Letter from an Eye-Witness" details the victory of Union General Andrew Smith over Confederate Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest from the point of view of the 12th Iowa. Narrative climaxes when "the tide of battle ebbs and flows beneath the hot rays of a July sun. Once more the rebel leaders urge their men to charge, but their men knew by bitter experience the men with whom they were fighting. Soon they break and escape to the woods." Goes on to say "Infantry, cavalry, and negroes have all served their country faithfully - have fought like veterans, as they are, and are entitled to their country's gratitude."
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