Jones, Joseph, fl. 1862-1865 to Nancy E. Jones

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GLC#
GLC02739.026-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
30 November 1862
Author/Creator
Jones, Joseph, fl. 1862-1865
Title
to Nancy E. Jones
Place Written
Nashville, Tennessee
Pagination
3 p : docket ;
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

He is on picket and it is difficult to write because "there is so many generals passing and we [have] to fall in to line evry time one comes along to salute him." On 27 November his brigade was ordered to scout towards Murfreesboro and skirmished with the Confederates. His regiment was ordered to guard the battery; they had "no firing to do but we was in the dangerest place." They drove the Confederates a mile from their camp, took possession of the nearby town, and burnt it.

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