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Smart, Alfred, b. ca. 1831. Letters, 19 October & 13 December 1864. 3 pages.
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Alfred Smart, a Union soldier during the Civil War, writes two letters to his brother dated 19 October and 13 December 1864. Smart possibly served in the 12th Indiana Infantry and was also in Co. F of the 22nd detachment on duty in Nashville in December 1864. Smart writes that he is doing well, although he finds camp life hard and the rations inadequate. He relates the movements of his regiment in fall 1864, which left Camp Carrington, Indiana and marched to Chattanooga and then on to Nashville, Tennessee. In Nashville, they have been busy erecting breastworks and Smart is sometimes shot at by the rebels while on picket duty. He mentions commanders who are present and writes that they have good quarters at the camp.