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Creator/Title
Holmes (Hohmes), Jonathan B., ca. 1833. Letter, 28 July 1862. ALS, 6pp.
Call No.
Mss. C H
Content
A 1st Sgt. in Co. A of the 6th Ohio Infantry, Holmes writes to Anna Phillips of Cincinnati from Murfreesboro, Tenn. He describes his commands hard march through the summer heat from Athens, Ala. to Nashville and their subsequent journey by rail to Murfreesboro. The march was made in response to the capture of Murfreesboro by Nathan B. Forrest's Confederate cavalry on July 12, 1862. He describes both Nashville and Murfreesboro and reports the destruction of a railroad bridge near Lebanon by Forrest's men.