Ripley, Isaiah, b. ca. 1829. Letter, 9 May 1862. 1 p.
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Pvt. Ripley writes to his brother in Indiana. He is currently stationed with the 51st Indiana Infantry Regt. in Nashville, TN. He briefly describes a skirmish between Gen. Dumont's union forces and Gen. John Hunt Morgan's cavalry unit near Nashville, resulting in the capture of 130 Confederate soldiers.
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