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12 December 1862
Jones, Joseph, fl. 1862-1865
to Nancy E. Jones
He went out on a very difficult picket but slept that night in a Confederate's barn to stay out of the rain.
GLC02739.030
7 January 1863
Joseph Walker and John Millis were killed in the Battle of Stones River.
GLC02739.031
21 January 1863
They left the Nashville area on 26 December and fought almost every day on their way to Murfreesboro. He describes a very tough battle and his own close call. The Confederate guns were "so hot that they burnt our hands when we took hold of them."
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24 January 1863
He does not think the South can be defeated: "we can't starve them out for they have a plenty and we can't whip them out for they are armed as well as we are, and they are as brave a men to fight as we are."
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11 February 1863
He grieves for George Cooper, John Millis, and Joseph Walker. He describes Joseph's and John's deaths and how he helped bury them. He isn't sorry that he enlisted but if he would never "go in another such a wore as this for it is an unholy war on...
GLC02739.034
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