wbond
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Hey all got a real treat tonight got to read some letters that are a 150 years old a solder by the name of Gordon Thompson a series of letters he wrote is wife during the war he wrote like he talked so yall would have to understand mountain slang to get the jest of everything
It was very interesting he talked about the battles being sick and people from around home who died got shot and wounded early on in his letters he had more details about home and her later he talks about not hearing from her he wondered about her and the kids and the fact that he really did not know what to say in his letters since he had not recieved any letters from her he did not know what her and the kids were going threw. All though she was writing he was not getting them she writes about that in a letter to him and how distraught she was that he was not getting her letters
He wrote her about the battles in Kentucky the heat and the battles in South Carolina it that it was so hot he longed for the mountains and at one point he talked about how he hoped to come home for leave at Christmas has he feared he would never see her and the kids again which he never got to do because he was wounded at Richmond you could feel the heart break and pain as he talked about how he missed them
His next letters talked a lot about the weather and how cold that March was and how concerned he was about here and the kids now the yankess had control of home and how she was being treated it was great stuff I wish I had copies for yall to read any way on May 9th 1864 he lost his life at the Battle of Cloyds Mountain about 50 miles from his home wife and kids whom he never got to see
The battle of Cloyd's Mountain was short and involved few troops, but contained some of the most severe and savage fighting of the war. The whole engagement lasted a little over an hour with much of that being hand-to-hand combat. Casualties were high for the modest number of troops involved. Crook lost 688 men, roughly 10% of his force. The Confederates lost fewer men—538—but that totaled 23% of their total force. The battle is considered a Union victory because Crook was able to continue on and destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at Dublin, Virginia, and Averell was also able to destroy several railroad bridges along the same line, severing one of the Confederacy's last vital lifelines and its only rail connection to East Tennessee. The day after the battle, remnant Confederate troops unsuccessfully defended a railroad bridge over the nearby New River. In the melee, a soldier who refused to take cover until Col. Hayes did so was mortally wounded. While undergoing first aid, the soldier was found to be a woman
Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes was in this battle he fought for the Union and would later become President of the United States
And oh yea she never remarried
Sorry for the long post but the letters were awesome
And oh yea Rob him sure that the heart jumped so hard that the suction had to clean up the blockage in my arties if there was any
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08-09-2013 12:45 AM
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