Letter from Hubert Dent in camp near Shelbyville, Tennessee, to his wife, Anna.
At the start of the Civil War, Dent was a 1st lieutenant of the Eufaula Rifles, which became Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry; he was eventually promoted to captain and commanded Dent's Battery (formerly Robertson's Battery). In the letter he discusses traveling by train to his curren...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | At the start of the Civil War, Dent was a 1st lieutenant of the Eufaula Rifles, which became Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry; he was eventually promoted to captain and commanded Dent's Battery (formerly Robertson's Battery). In the letter he discusses traveling by train to his current camp (when a car full of soldiers "ran off the track and turned a complete somerset down a bank about thirty feet high"); mutual acquaintances (including two women who "went inside the Yankee lines" searching for a soldier in a hospital); troop movements and upcoming campaigns; his need for new clothing ("I must have something in the shape of a uniform or I will be taken for a conscript"); and the recent battle at Murfreesboro. A transcription is included. [The original pages were extremely faded, so these images have been enhanced to bring out the text.] |
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