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(SOLDIER`S CEDAR CREEK LETTER)

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(SOLDIER`S CEDAR CREEK LETTER)
"A great letter describing the Battle of Cedar Creek, written by Pvt. Noah Swinehart of the 126th Ohio Volunteers, 4pp. 8vo., Cedar Creek, Oct. 23, 1864, in part: ""àWe have had another day of war and bloodshed on last Wednesday the 19th inst. Which commenced about an hour and a half before day light and lasted until after dark. I was on picket at the time on the right center of our line and the rebels came in on the 8th & 19th Corps on surprise. They being dressed in our uniforms came across the mountainsàwhich let them right in on our menàthis caused great confusion. Our men had to fall back and the whole army fell about three miles where the men were rallied and a line of battle formed, and in the afternoon after some stubborn resistance we drove the enemy and kept them going until after dark. That night we camped in our old camp which during the day has became a battlefield. The loss on both sides was heavy in killed and woundedàI never saw so many dead men at one time...We captured about two thousand prisoners and fifty three pieces of artilleryà"". Swinehart was a cousin of Melancthon Bowman, and was wounded in the same battle that killed Bowman. Minor fold separations, overall very good." 2343 A great letter describing the Battle of Cedar Creek, written by Pvt. Noah Swinehart of the 126th Ohio Volunteers, 4pp. 8vo., Cedar Creek, Oct. 23, 1864, in part: ""àWe have had another day of war and bloodshed on last Wednesday the 19th inst. Which commenced about an hour and a half before day light and lasted until after dark. I was on picket at the time on the right center of our line and the rebels came in on the 8th & 19th Corps on surprise. They being dressed in our uniforms came across the mountainsàwhich let them right in on our menàthis caused great confusion. Our men had to fall back and the whole army fell about three miles where the men were rallied and a line of battle formed, and in the afternoon after some stubborn resistance we drove the enemy and kept them going until after dark. That night we camped in our old camp which during the day has became a battlefield. The loss on both sides was heavy in killed and woundedàI never saw so many dead men at one time...We captured about two thousand prisoners and fifty three pieces of artilleryà"". Swinehart was a cousin of Melancthon Bowman, and was wounded in the same battle that killed Bowman. Minor fold separations, overall very good.