1864 Union Soldier’s Letter: “Fighting Rebs & Copperheads”
Steven | January 27, 2009
This is the complete transcript to a letter home written by Corporal Erastus Winters of the 50th Ohio Infantry in General Tecumseh Sherman’s army. He talks about the fall of Atlanta and fighting General Hood’s Rebels across Georgia, and his feelings about the Rebel sympathizers back home. This letter is currently up for auction on [...]
