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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04115 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Port Hudson, Louisiana Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 April 1863 Pagination: 2 p. Order a Copy
Letter from of soldier in 9th regiment, Texas infantry, regarding Union bombardment.
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Louiannia Lycurgus Lamburt
Fort Hutson April the 7
Dear father & mother I take my pen in hand to inform yo that I am well at present wee hav heavy bumbading & at fort hutson on 14 the of April it comments at nine and o'clock an lasted tel too clock after night they was about hundred shots find to the minet the yankey they thout they wood make attack fort hutson by water an lan but the yanky faild to take fort hutson they brout up land force in one mile of our brest works while the gun boats was sheling our batreas they have gon don by our battras She cride out surrender and made to wards our landan and battreas and made hur escape up the to wards vicksburgs we burnt one boat cald the missippia and sum one gun boat past vicksburg the ar butween vicksburg & fort hutson they come don in site of our batras yeastra laving & fird few rounds & fell back bel hiard the pint we had forty thousan torys hire one brigade left here last Sunday we git pleanty of sugar & molassis bacon meal peas som rise few potatoes Tobaco is worth from one dollar per plug unings one dollar per dozen potatoes three dollars per bushel we hav heap of sickness in camps Eggs too dollars seventy five cts pur doussan health is tolarbly good we hav lost twenty five men in camps in the last the too months out of our battalion fifty sick in the horsepittle We are campt on the bank of the Missipia River Twenty miles above baton rush & well fortified our brestworks is three miles long imbankmet five feet high ditch five feet I don't think they is any chance for the yankey to take fort hutson I shal hafto close by ask you to write as son this combs to hand.
Dyrect your leter to Maxey Briggade
Burnet Burtalion C.O A Fort
Fort hutson Louiannia
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