Letter from Henry Semple in camp near Pensacola, Florida to his wife, Emily, in Gainestown, Alabama.
During the Civil War, Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appointed a major and transferred to Mobile. In the letter he describes the Union bombardment of Fort McRee in great detail, and he predicts that the experi...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/4001 |