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- GLC#
- GLC03858.02.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 4, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Parrott, Henry C., fl. 1861-1877
- Title
- to Maggie Parrot
- Place Written
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
His General, P. Sidney Post, led them in Battalion Drill today. A Lieutenant Colonel from his regiment was taken prisoner while doing reconnaissance. "Secesh Cavalry are seen every day and occasional[l]y some are brought into camp." He mistook a group of runaway slaves for Confederates but did not communicate the error when he discovered it, causing fifty men to be sent after the slaves. Written at Camp Andy Johnson.
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