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Texas Ranger Civil War ALS

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Texas Ranger Civil War ALS
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Four page Civil War letter by William Blantz of the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, recounting the skirmish in Kentucky that killed Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry of the Texas Rangers. From Camp Wood dated 26 December 1861, letter reads in part, ''…We have been very busy preparing to meet old Buckner…we have made three or four advances, building & repairing bridges, as we move onward. The railroad bridge over Bacon Creek that was destroyed by the Rebels was rebuilt by our men and now provisions can be sent by rail to a station within one mile of camp. Our encampment extends to within half a mile of Green River. The railroad bridge is also destroyed over this river…We came here the 17th arriving in the evening. Soon after we came we heard some sharp firing across the river. We were ordered to put on our accoutrements, shoulder our guns and make for the field of battle in double quick. Indeed the men could hardly be kept back but we arrived just in time to be too late, the Rebels having came in the cars thought it was their best plant to get back as soon as they could. The particulars of the fight I will try to give you. In the afternoon the cars came up from Bowling Green with two regiments of infantry, one of cavalry & a battery. Four companies of a Dutch regiment went out to meet them (they being near that place) and their commenced the tug of war which was desperate as their was but four hundred of our men against three thousand of theirs besides their artillery. They were driven from the field leaving Colonel Terry and sixty privates dead on the field while our men lost but eleven…'' With original mailing envelope. Fine condition.