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- GLC#
- GLC03523.03.05-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 April 1862
- Author/Creator
- Bope, John, 1838-?
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Hardin County, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.9 cm, Width: 23.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Bope writes to a friend from the Battlefield of Camp Shiloh. Reports he survived the bloody Battle of Shiloh (6-7 April 1862) unharmed. Discusses the battle strategy in depth and the horror he felt: "...we had to step over the daed [sic] and mutilated bodies of Friend and Enemy..." Letterhead contains a drawing of Andrew Jackson with the phrase "Our Federal Union, It MUST be preserved."
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