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UNION ADVANCE ON CORINTH AFTER SHILOH

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UNION ADVANCE ON CORINTH AFTER SHILOH
<b>773. UNION ADVANCE ON CORINTH AFTER SHILOH </b>A great letter by Corporal Franklin Tucker Co. E, 72nd Ohio Vol., 4pp. 8vo., Tennessee, May 15, 1862, written as the Union army advanced on Corinth after Shiloh, mentioning that battle and detailing the resistance encountered, in part: "<i>...We are marching on Corinth slowly...our pickets and the rebels...fire at each other...our batteries opened a few on them...our pickets are fighting as I am writing...we were in a line of battle in no time. We have our guns stacked nights and sleep by them with our cartridge boxes on...squads of soldiers desert the rebels almost every day...the rebels are evacuating Corinth...I am as far south as I want to be. I have been called up three or four times since I commenced this letter...the 72nd...fought until the regiments on our left gave way and we was about to be flanked by the enemy. We drove the enemy back at first but they came on us by the thousands and none came to reinforce us...</i>". As part of Sherman's division, the 72nd Ohio was one of the first regiments hit by the attacking Confederates, and fought gallantly to stop the Confederate drive. Overall very good.<b> $250-350</b>