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. . . Heaven I believe is favoring us that we will finally succeed in putting down the Rebellion.
Haubstadt, Indiana
1863
Early 1863 | Operations against Morgan Various support positions with the 23rd Army Corps
1865
Winter/Spring | Campaign of the Carolinas
Ewing letters
24 separately dated letters 22 of 24 are from Sept thru Dec 1864 11 are written while in GA in Sept 1864 10 are written in TN during Hood s campaign Three are pre-Columbia action Six are written from Nashville, covers Franklin and Nashville action.
Clark diary,
rd 63
Indiana
At 4 o clock p.m., the enemy came, they drove in our pickets and made a desperate charge upon our works, but were driven back with great slaughter, however this did not satisfy them, and they came again and again until they had made as much as 8 or 10 different charges upon our works. They took a portion of our works at one time, but were immediately retaken by our men; they fought with a desperation worthy of a better cause.
Dec
st 1
Reb General Adams was killed in the ditch. Genl Pat Cleburne was amongst the slain. During the interval from their last charge to the time we left, the quiet was broken by the moans and piteous cries of the wounded for water, out in the darkness. I could but feel sympathy for the poor fellows though they would do us and our country all the harm they could.
Dec
rd 3
letter Nashville
All is good here! Coming in on the heels of the great victory we won over the enemy at Franklin on the 30th Nov makes us feel good. I have no doubt you have heard all about what we accomplished but you must want to know how I came out which was all right. The Rebs fought desperately. Colonels and Generals rode right up to our faces bringing their men up in fine style but blue coats wouldn t budge back one inch and they fell victims of their own mad actions. A person could walk over several acres of ground passing from one dead body to another. It was a terrible slaughter. We took almost 3,000 prisoners and 12 colors. Many more could have been taken up but it was dark & our forces fell back to this place inside its fortifications, where we can use the Rebble army up if they come on to us. There is no quicker way of suffering this war than by having the Rebs charge our works, when they invariably get whipped.
Dec
th 8
Evening: Went with Sergt W.C. Olds [William C. Olds] to the old theatre, saw Alladin played, a pretty nice play.
According to the Nashville Dispatch, December 9, 1864. Aladdin continues to draw numerous audiences to this timehonored house, and no wonder, for Miss Julia Nelson has won the hearts of all the bachelors, and Harry Everett has won the affections of the ladies. Go and see this spectacle, by all means; the scenery alone is worth double the price of admission.
Dec
th 8
letter Nashville
. . . it is cold, raining, snowing, sleeting . . . we are in shelter tents, no wood and nothing to make ourselves comfortable . . . the poor half-clad creatures [Confederates] out a couple of miles must suffer with the cold, for they have no gum blankets nor plenty of good clothing as we do. There was a rumor just now that they were leaving our front. I wish they would, and go so far that we would see them no more of this winter. . . . no wood to make fires and most of us thinly clad, our suffering is intense. A.P. Cannon, 27th Alabama, Bloody Banners, p. 102.
Dec
th 11
letter Nashville
Yes I was there in command of our Brigade skirmish line when the battle commenced. But our Heavenly Father has spared me through another fierce conflict where many fell, more worthy than I. It is impossible for me to give you any real idea of the fierceness of the charge of the Rebbles. Or the gallantry with which it was met by the boys in blue. I am glad that the poor of Evansville are so well remembered by the farmers of Vanderburgh. I shall always be a friend to the poor
Dec
nd 22
letter Nashville
Day before yesterday [Dec 20th] we was at Franklin where there are hundreds of new made graves filled by the enemy. I went up to the old breastworks where we lay & all over our Brigade which is pretty well dotted with Rebble graves. At one place there is 14 of Co K, 14th Miss laying in a row. I see one grave marked by J.P. See[d] 55th TN. There are dead horses laying around unburied. Some of them almost up over our works. . . . Heaven I believe is favoring us that we will finally succeed in putting down the Rebellion.
The
rd 63
Indiana at Franklin?
The 63rd IN was the center part of the far left Union flank in Stiles Brigade. Loring s Division made up of Scott and Featherston assaulted the Union flank, much to their own demise.
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