CIVIL WAR Hard Fighting 69th OHIO INFANTRY SOLDIERS LETTER COVER SIGNED 1863

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CIVIL WAR Hard Fighting 69th OHIO INFANTRY SOLDIERS LETTER COVER SIGNED 1863 :
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HERE’S A “Hard-Fighting”

69TH OHIO INFANTRY SOLDIER’S LETTER “DUE 3” COVERSIGNED BY AN OFFICER WITH THE 69TH OVI

THE COVERBEARS A “DUE 3” CIRCULAR POSTAL HANDSTAMP AND NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE CircularDate stamp Postmark – DATED JUN 10, 1863, WHILE THE 69th WASSTATIONED AT NASHVILLE!

Addressedto Mr. John Shaw at Morrow County, Ohio. There are no letter contents.

This RARE document measures 5 ½” x 3” and is in VERY GOODCONDITION, with wear at edges, and a closed tear. The cover is complete with backflap.

ARARE ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WAR/19th CENTURY OHIO MILITARY HISTORY AUTOGRAPH,MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!

History of the OHIO
SIXTY-NINTH INFANTRY
(Three Years)

Sixty-ninth Infantry. - Cols., Lewis D; Campbell, William

B. Cassilly, Marshall F. Moore; Lieut.-Cols., Charles L. Gano,

George F. Elliott, Joseph H. Brigham; Majs., Eli J. Hickcox,

James J. Hanna, Lewis E. Hicks. This regiment was organized in

the state at large from Oct. 1861, to April, 1862, to serve for

three years. In April, 1862, it received orders to report for

duty at Nashville, Tenn., at which place it arrived on the

22nd. It particiapted in its first real engagement during the

first day\'s fighting at Stone\'s river, where it suffered se-

verely both in killed and wounded. On the last day of the bat-

tle it took part in the brilliant and desperate charge across

the river against Breckenridge\'s Confederate corps, in which

the enemy was driven back with heavy loss, and in this charge

it captured a section of the famous Washington battery from New

Orleans. The regiment participated in the battle of Missionary

ridge and was among the first to reach the top of the mountain.

In the following spring it veteranized, was furloughed home,

and then joined Sherman\'s forces in May. It was engaged with

the enemy at Resaca losing 5 killed and 26 wounded. At Pumpkin

Vine creek and at Dallas the enemy was again engaged and in

these affairs the regiment lost 5 killed and 19 wounded. Dur-

ing the siege of Kennesaw mountain 2 men were killed in the

regiment. At Marietta it lost 1 man killed and 7 wounded. In

the affair at the crossing of the Chattahoochee river it es-

caped without loss but at Peachtree creek 1 man was killed and

10 wounded. During the siege of Atlanta it lost 9 men wounded,

2 of whom subsequently died. The regiment took part in the

fight at Jonesboro and lost 8 killed and 36 wounded, some of

whom died in a few hours after the fight. It joined in Sher-

man\'s march to the sea and in the campaign through the Caroli-

nas, participated in the battle at Bentonville, in which it

lost 2 killed and 8 wounded. It was mustered out on July 17,

1865.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 2

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