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- GLC#
- GLC03523.03.10-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 October 1862
- Author/Creator
- Bope, Conrad, 1839-1917
- Title
- to John Bope Sr.
- Place Written
- Green River, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 26 cm, Width: 24.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Bope writes to his father from a camp outside of Green River. Says they will go to Nashville next. Mentions that many soldiers from the Ohio 49th Infantry have deserted. Comments that there has been no fighting for him since Shiloh. Doesn't know where Confederate General Braxton Bragg and his troops are, but states that "...if they give us a chance at bragg we can whip them." Discusses the arrival of tents, and mentions the general good health of the 49th. Envelope has image and the slogan "Remember Ellsworth," who was a Union Colonel and the first casualty of the Civil War.
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