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1864-09-11 Page 01
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H'd Qrs 7" Iowa Vet Inft Near East Point Ga. Sunday. Sept 11" 1864 My dear Wife I presume you have been looking for a letter from me for sometime. the only excuse that I can offer is a want to time, and If I had taken time to write I do not suppose I could have got it mailed. I believe I told you in my letter of the 24" of July, that we was Just on the Eave of marching. We started on the afternoon of the 25th and that night all of our troops Evacuated the works in front of Atlanta. The 20th Corps. falling back across the Chattahoochee River to protect our Rail Road Communication, while the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Cumberland & the Army of the Ohio. advanced in the direction of the Atlanta and Macon Rail Road The move is called Shermans Raid it was a very perilous one and was made by Genl Sherman in opposition to the advice of the President. and Genl Grant
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H'd Qrs 7" Iowa Vet Inft Near East Point Ga. Sunday. Sept 11" 1864 My dear Wife I presume you have been looking for a letter from me for sometime. the only excuse that I can offer is a want to time, and If I had taken time to write I do not suppose I could have got it mailed. I believe I told you in my letter of the 24" of July, that we was Just on the Eave of marching. We started on the afternoon of the 25th and that night all of our troops Evacuated the works in front of Atlanta. The 20th Corps. falling back across the Chattahoochee River to protect our Rail Road Communication, while the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Cumberland & the Army of the Ohio. advanced in the direction of the Atlanta and Macon Rail Road The move is called Shermans Raid it was a very perilous one and was made by Genl Sherman in opposition to the advice of the President. and Genl Grant
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