Draft of a letter from S. H. Dent to Colonel J. P. Smartt.
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 Dent discusses a monuments recently erected o...
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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 Dent discusses a monuments recently erected on the Chickamauga battlefield. He thinks the inscription on one of the tablets is incorrect; it gives another artillery unit credit for work done by Dent's Battery, so he describes his memory of the battle. |
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