Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 to A. P. Mason

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GLC#
GLC08900
Type
Letters
Date
December 21, 1864
Author/Creator
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877
Title
to A. P. Mason
Place Written
Columbia, Tennessee
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 13 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to Colonel Mason about the shelling of Columbia, Tennessee and the situation of prisoners during the Tennessee Campaign: "I told him [Union General Edward Hatch] that we had no forces in the town excepting a skirmish line, that his fire has endangered his own wounded who are in the town, and that if it did not cease I should place the wounded directly under it. After this the firing ceased." Discusses his correspondence with Hatch about a prisoner exchange and his feelings that it implied that there were no Union infantry to the front of his position. Written at Headquarters near Columbia.

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