- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Unidentified Civil War Union soldier letter, 1864
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- envelopes
letters (correspondence) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This collection contains a six page letter written by an unidentified Union private in the 20th corps, possibly named "Ike", to Mr. Edward Phillip of Yaphank, New York. The letter was written on 16 August 1864 in a camp about two miles from Atlanta, Georgia, and contains a detailed description of the Battle of Peach Tree Creek. The letter mentions Captain White, Captain Stevens, the death of James Biling, and that "Rush" and "Clark" were taken prisoner. Also included is the envelope, postmarked in Nashville on 23 August 1864.
Edward Phillip lived in Yaphank, Suffolk County, New York.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ghs2355-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/turningpoint/do:ghs2355-001
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
-
