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- GLC#
- GLC04501.019-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 31, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892
- Title
- to his father Tobias Gibson
- Place Written
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 34.5 cm, Width: 22 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Gibson describes a march ending at Chattanooga and estimates the sizes of John Buford's and Jonathan Hunt Morgan's respective cavalry units. He laments the failed campaign into Kentucky and vividly describes the Battle of Perryville (10/8/1862). He recommends moving the negroes to Eastern Louisiana, away from the Union lines. The army has lost confidence in General Bragg, who has gone to Richmond. Was written near Knoxville, Tennessee.
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