Cranor, Franklin, fl. 1862-1865 to Delia Slocum

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GLC03791.015
GLC#
GLC03791.015-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
3 July 1864
Author/Creator
Cranor, Franklin, fl. 1862-1865
Title
to Delia Slocum
Place Written
Marietta, Georgia
Pagination
7 p. : envelope Height: 20.7 cm, Width: 27.2 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Written from the frontlines of the Atlanta Campaign Cranor reports that he has seen the worst of fighting, even more so than Stones River and Missionary Ridge. He wrote "that day was the first time ever I thought of getting killed in battel when we was fighting just to look and see men falling like they did." His company sustained heavy casualties: "we had 44 men I beleave, now we have twelve men for duty." He finishes on the topic of the photographs.

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