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<b>73. (FORMER VMI STUDENT FIGHTS FOR ATLANTA IN 1864) </b>A great war-date Confederate soldier's letter written in pencil by former VMI student Pvt. Alfred R. Gibbons, 1st Georgia Cavalry 4pp. 8vo., "<i>in line of battle...May 31, 1864</i>" to his father concerning Sherman's drive on Atlanta and of his comrade's fight at New Market, Va. earlier that month, in part: "...we have been laying in line of battle behind our entrenchments...we skirmish with the enemy every day...Johnson will make a stand at this place. I hope that he will as I am getting tired of running & my horse's back is not in a fix to run. I have not seen him since the day we got here as the horses were all taken to the rear...if I could only keep his back well until this fight is over. I could capture a yankee saddle. Perhaps you could find a Texas saddle tree in Atlanta...by Mr. Clements...our horses only get two hands or three hand fulls of corn a day and they have to keep the saddles on them all the time...old Mr. Gordon Meyherst...& P. M. Camburg were killed by our soldiers and that the yankees killed Judge Tambert and Mr. Harden in retaliation and that Mr. Norton was very dangerously wounded...& that they taken every thing that they have to eat and are rationing rations to the citizens and that they are going to take all the farming utensils except one how...the cadets of the V.M.I. were in the fight near New Market. Two of my room mates was wounded. I wonder if the boys at Marietta have been ordered out....tell me what...you took when you came out and who came out besides yourself...our army is in very good spirits...". While a student at VMI in late 1863. Gibbons received informal military training when the Corps of Cadets in which he was a part were engaged in pursuing Union troops throughout the Shenandoah Mountains. In early 1864, he resigned from the academy and returned to Georgia. At which time he enlisted in the 1st Georgia Cavalry and served under Johnson and Hood in defense of Atlanta only to be captured at the battle for that city on July 21, 1864. Also, included is a photocopy of Gibbons wearing a UCV uniform and holding a Confederate flag. Minor toning and usual toning, else very good.<b>$500-700</b>
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