Parrott, Henry C. to sister
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03858.02.02 Author/Creator: Parrott, Henry C. Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 31 October 1862 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; 20.3 x 25.3 cm. Order a Copy
It is difficult to find water on march as the streams have all dried up; the river they are camped by is the first running water he has seen since they crossed the Ohio. He read a letter from his father to John and found it most encouraging. The regiment was "pretty badly cut to pieces at Perrysville;" "the boys fell around me as fast as grass before a scythe." He is now Orderly Sergeant.
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