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- GLC#
- GLC04706.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 29, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Donahue, Thomas, fl. 1863
- Title
- to Almira Winchell
- Place Written
- Warrenton, Virginia
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Describes hard marching between Culpepper and Centreville, and crossing the old Bull Run Battlefield where the skeletons of those killed were visible. Writes, "[L]ast week we Crossed the old bull run battle Field and we could See lots of Skeletons of men killed there a year ago and were left on top... if I were home and See that I would think it an awful but to See a dead man here, why it haint nothing. I have Seen dead Rebels at the Battle of Antietam lay right in the road and the wheels of the Guns would run over them..."
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