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- GLC#
- GLC02739.045-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 April 1863
- Author/Creator
- Jones, Joseph, fl. 1862-1865
- Title
- to Nancy E. Jones
- Place Written
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 8 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He was detailed and had to leave the 79th to work a twelve pound brass cannon in the 20th Ohio Battery. He does not feel in any more danger as "I can dodge a shell or canon ball some times but a musket ball I can not." The battery consists of two brass cannon and four rifle cannon. With note to Phebe Jane Walker on verso re: ballad composed in honor of Joseph Walker.
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