Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Pennington, Benjamin Charpel, 1833-1863. Letter, 22 December 1862. ALS, 4 pp.
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Mss. C P
Content
Pennington is a private in Co. F, 107th Illinois Infantry, stationed near Woodsonville, Ky. In this letter to his grandfather, Rev. George A. Zimmerman, he describes his camp and its defenses, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad bridge over Green River, defenses on Green River, a mass grave of Confederate soldiers and rumors of a pending attack by Confederate forces under Gens. John H. Morgan and E. Kirby Smith.