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BATTLE OF NASHVILLE - SOLDIER'S LETTER

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BATTLE OF NASHVILLE - SOLDIER'S LETTER
<b>756. BATTLE OF NASHVILLE </b>Fine content war-date Union soldier's letter on Christian Commission letterhead in pencil, 4pp. 8vo., Nashville, Dec. 8, 1864, in which Albert Towne of the 32nd Iowa writes his sister, in part: "<i>...The enemy are in our immediate front. They can bee seen from the top of the hill...throwing up their works just out of range of our 3" rifle Rodman guns...picket firing is going on most of the time night & day...cannon are booming almost continuously shelling the rebel working parties on their fortifications...our line is 9 miles long, in shape like a new moon, while the rebel lines are around us & consequently 2 or 3 miles longer...the smoke of their fires are plain to be seen, as well as our shells bursting in their direction marked by a flash of light & the smoke...</i>". Very good, sold with a Harper's Weekly two-page engraving showing the desperate battle at Fort Sanders, titled: "<i>The Rebel Assault on Fort Saunders - The Fight Over the Ditch</i>". <b>$150-200</b>