Title: Union Soldier's Letter

Date/Date Range :   undated

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection houses an incomplete letter written by an unknown Union soldier while in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, during the Civil War.

Call number: MS-2951

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library,Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Purchased by Special Collections, September 25, 2006.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Union Soldier's Letter, MS-2951. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of one folder.

No biographical information is available.

This incomplete letter, written by an unknown Union soldier while in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, during the Civil War, discusses an attack by rebel forces and "a battle that may occur at any moment." He writes that his unit plans to move on to Rome, Atlanta, or Savannah, and mentions that "Burnside and Grant expect to aid us." The soldier also writes of receiving a letter that brings "memories and peace to fill where before was naught but misery and loneliness," and of "the treachery of men generally, the false, hypocrite horde that cluster around you-"

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Bailey's Crossroads (Va.).