Pages 083-084, Confederate Civil War diary
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Pages 083-084, Confederate Civil War diary |
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Description |
Dec. 5th [1864] Our loss at the battle of Franklin in killed, wounded & prisoners not more than 3,500, seventeen general officers lost. Witnessed upon the field a scene which touched my heart: as I rode among the dead I heard a soldier lamenting in tears the fall of his comrades – his words as I remember them – were “here they lie cold & dead; my colonel – the best in the world & my Brigadier General are both dead” – tears ran down his cheeks & he called out in tones of sorrow to his passing comrades “my brave colonel is dead.” He called the name of Col. Young: a gentleman of that name commanded the 10 Texas Regt. in Granbury’s Brig. [Despite horrific losses at Franklin, Confederate General John Bell Hood, commanding the Army of the Tennessee, pushed his depleted troops north to Nashville, Tennessee. Unseasonably cold weather there produced crippling ice storms that stalled the war.] |
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Subjects |
Civil War
Soldiers
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Creator |
George D. Wise |
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Format |
Handwritten diary |
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Rights |
http://morristownlibrary.org/HCFindingAids/reproductions.pdf |
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Image ID |
civilwardiary 083-084 |
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Publisher |
Morristown, NJ: Morristown & Morris Township Public Library, The North Jersey History & Genealogy Center |
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Civil War Diary of Confederate soldier George D. Wise
