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          Dear my beluved wife,     I am soo sorry for the tragedi that just occured in our hometown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That 3 days batle was soo horific, especialy when on where we grew up. Day one started very innocently, but evolved into terror very quickly. It literaly started as a clash over shoes on the Northwest section of out town . When I heard this news, I was soo worrid for u and our luvly children when i ntense fighting took place as reinforceementss arrivied. The Union had to be pushed bac into our town, but they still held the high groundd by the end of da first day.     The second and third day waz soo brutal and harsh. I am a field hospital orderly soo I waz just helping many injured soldiers. Once a soldier was wounded, medical personel on the battlefield would bandagee 'em up as fast as they could, gave whiskey to ease the wound and morphine. Then, they would be taken to the field hospital and seperated into 3 c...
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1863

Dear Ma and Pa,         Another horrible battle ended today. We fought at Gettysburg for three days to keep the rebels from invading . We won but....we lost so many. There was so much fighting that a group of soldiers keeping the rebels from flanking us ran out of bullets and was forced to charge the fully armed rebels with bayonets . It's a terrible thing war is. But this battle was the is the worst . So bad we had to bury the dead on the field . So bad that president Lincoln came and gave a speech to remember the dead . I do hope this ends soon. I want to come home. I miss the farm. And the twins. I hope i can survive this hell. Love,     Herman
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1864 Blog: Fall of Atlanta and Sherman´s March to the Sea

Dear Pa, Ma 3 year enlistment pereod is comin´ to a close , as it is for a lot of other Union soldiers. Heard dat 100,000 men have desided to go ahed and go home, but as much as I miss you, Harriet, and the kids, I think that I´m gonna stay and finish what I started here. We´ve suffered many casualties, nearly 65,000 sense the seven weeks after the beggining of May . People are startin´ to doubt ol´ Lincoln tho. God bless the poor man, I don´t know how he holds up amidst all this.  Anyway, the other day I marched my troops into the city of Atlanta . It´s one of the few manyufacksuring hedquarters of the South and has a complex railroad depot too . It´s a miracle we were able to get into that big city so easily, heard all the troops had to evacuate the place after some costly battles. Wunce we took cuntrol of the city, we just started tramplin´ the whole dang city. We set houses aflame, ravaged plantations for food and supplies, and wreaked utter havoc on the hole place . ...
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