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UJVI ■ V ■ 41 |V«Your friend,JO’ Tlie following letter has been kindly handed u*. We think our reader* will find It interesting though not written for publication :Camp kxar Chattanoooa, Test. Obt. H, *U3.Dear Father .*—1 have another opportunity of writingl you by Mr. W.Dorwin, who Is our courier to deliver letters from the ormy to Shreveport, I.t,i am, by the blessing of God, still alive a ad in good bevlib. We have hud another terrible battle, called the battle of Chickamauga, of which you have, of course, heard, and which lasted two days. Gen. Bragv. this time, outgeneraled Bnsecrats, and gave him an unmerciful whipping : Oh t what horrors are to be seen and felt In this warl Ylt; the dyingand wounded lift on the held perishing from thirst and suffering from their wounds. I am in the Pro-voit Guard, detailed to keep up straglers and guard prisoners, and to guard the dead and wounded on the battle field, and to stop pilfering the dead. We were left to do this duty after the defeat and flight of Rosecrans, and oh, what sights I witnessed. Rosecrans left his dead and wounded in our hands, his dead are yet lying where they were shotdown. We'coolcTnot bury them sir, and had to Ravethem as we fonnd them. I saw some with their brains all acattered around them, still alive ; others with holes through them, so that it seemed impossible for them to live, though they lived for days. Rosecraoa was badly defeated : bis loss amounts to 30,000, Ottf* 12,000. 1 will semi you. a piper, If I can. The Northern papers ore very mournful about the defeat of Rorejrana. We »w lying In ttmirt battle opposite Chattanooga, three miles from the enemy, behind breast works, down (u the valley be- i tween two mountains* Thry have strongly entrench ■ ed themselves Id and about Chattanooga, acting on the defensive. We are closely besieging them, and are anxiously awaiting their approach We can. by going upon the mountain, see their line o' battle and their fortiflcations, very plainly. X go up and Jook etJhem every day. Oannonilog has ceased to be a novelty, at we heaT liStVi* my. shelled the Yankees nearly ail dry, they, replying. Gen. Bragg has one hundred guns planted bearin« upon their fort and fortiflcations. We have right lively times here every day, and are getting OffCd to tbe horrors th.t we used to have of bomb I shells bursting and the roar of large tleae (runs.
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Galveston Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 15, 1863
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