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O’ following letter hss been kindly hwded us. We think our reader! will find it interesting though not written for publication :Camp kxar Cdattanoooa, Tk«. Obt. 14, *tJ3.Dear Father .*~I have another opportunity of writing! you by Mr. W. Dorwin, who Is our courier to deliver letters from the army to Shreveport, lit,i am, by the blessing of God, still alive aad In good health* We have had another terrible battle, called the battle of Chiokamauga, of which you have, of course, heard, and which lasted taro days. Gen. Brag?, this time, out generated Bosecrans, and gave him an unmerciful whipping: Oh t what horrors are to be seen and felt In this war I To t»ea the dying and wounded lift oti the fir Id perishing from thirst and suffering from their wounds. X 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 atop pilfering the dead. We were left to do this duty after the detest and flight of Rosecrana, and oh, what sights I witnessed. Kosecrans left hi* dead and wounded in our hands, ^meof hi* dead are yet lying where they were shot down. We'eoulcTnot buryIhenrsir,'and had’ to Rave them as we found them. X saw some with their brains tU scattered around them, a till alive ; others with holes through them, so that iv seemed impossible for them to live, though they lived for days. Bosecraos was badly defeated; bis loss amounts to 20,000, oars 12,000. X will send yott a paper, if I can. The Northern papers are very mournful about the defeat of Rovewsas. We a** lying in UnaAxfi battle opposite Obattaaooga, three miles from the enemy, behind breast works, down in (tie valley between two mountain* They hav* strongly entrench ed themselves in and about Chattanooga, acting on the defensive. We are closely besieging them, and are anxiously awaiting their approach We can, bygoing upon the mountain, see their line or battleand their fortifications, very plainly. 1 go up and Joo* utJhem every day. Cannonading ha* ceased to be a novelty, at we hew UStViy shelled the Yankees nearly all d*y, they, replying. Gen. Bragg has one hundred guns planted bearing upon their fort and fortifications. We have right lively times here every day, and are getting used to tbe horrors th.t we used to have of bombshells bursting and the roar of large siege guns.Longstreet, Breckinridge and part of Gen. Joe Johnson's commands are here with us. Our old Texts brigade, from Virginia, Is also here with us, in Longstrest's corps Gen. Hood lost his leg i« the fight on ftundsy. The battle of Ghlckamauga was fought on Saturday and Sunday, 19th and 20m. The loss in our regiment was light. Oapt. Proudfoot was wounded badly In tbe toot. Mordtea Bryan, son of Dr. Bryan of Houston, was killed. John Brioghurtt was wounded, but not dangerously. Oar Brigade suffered severely. We lost our Brigadier, Gen. Be shier—tbe brave rst man I ever raw. Our brigade was in the hottest of the fight—two other brigades bad to fall back from the position we had taken, and where we stood our ground. General Longstreet complemented us highly, and said it was due our brigade the honor of that day’s fight, (Sunday), ia keeping our position so that he could flank them, as we kept the enemy’s attention directed towards us Thunka be to God, We threaded In main tain leg our pronn t and completely routing them on all sides It was a terrible fight, imb-ed, and I dout ever wish to see such another.
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Galveston Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 15, 1863
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