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Creator/Title
Cox, George B., ca. 1826-1910. Papers, 1862-1910. 10 items.
Call No.
Mss. C C
Content
A private in Battery G of the 1st Ohio Light Artillery, George Cox writes to his sisters in Cleveland about his military service in the western theater during the Civil War. In an undated letter from near Louisville, he deplored the destruction of private property by Union forces. He reports, "We burned one Mile of Fence for our watch fires..." He adds, "none but those who have witnessed the march of 11 thousand men & Horses into a village can have any idea of the Destruction of Property in [the] short space of an hour." He notes that civilians view the troops with dread because they took what they wanted such as "fences, cows, Pigs & Chickens."