McCLELLAN PATRIOTIC LETTERSHEET-CAMP WOOD LOUISVILLE,KY DEC 25, 1862_GOOD LETTER

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McCLELLAN PATRIOTIC LETTERSHEET-CAMP WOOD LOUISVILLE,KY DEC 25, 1862_GOOD LETTER:
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GEN GEORGEMcCLELLAN PATRIOTIC LETTERSHEET
CAMP WOOD LOUISVILLE, KY DEC 25, 1862 _ GOOD LETTER
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Transcription of the more interesting portions of letter are as follows:Camp Wood

December the 25th (1862)

Kind and belovedbrother It is with pleasure that I again Seat My Self to rite

a fiew Lines to youto inform you that I am wel at this present time & I hope

that theas few linesWill find you in the same health Wel Silas we have marced

a wey farther Souththan We was when I rote to you before but we are not far

a nough Southto sethe C’s for when we ketch up with any of them they wil

retreat back fartherSouth and if we ketch up the scondrels they are good unians?

Men but there was afiew got ketched for good the day that we Came in this

camp.

So I wil tel you alabout the fitee when we Came in this Camp we heard the

Canons friering Dawnby the river but we are So use to that that we did not

think ef a fite butwe had not been in Camp long when we heard the drum beat

the long role andthat Means al fal in for a fite With your Guns loaded Wel I

was standing on Gardbut but that made me leave the beat and persew after my

Co Mr? Peas wasalready loaded with 1 quarter of a pound bal and 7 rounds

ware in My Catredge half the canons was still fiering away We went for Grean

river a bout 1 mileDouble quick al the way up hil and daun over the rocks and

stones When we gotto the river we was al haltead Drawed up in the line of batle

and then waited fororders

When we got tharethe canons had Ceasded fiering Wel we wated thare about ½ hr

and then got ordersto March for Camp Wel when we got in we heard the true

report of the fite So I wil tel you how it was thare was 152 of C Cavaly and 500

infantry and theyhad to have? Atacted 400 of the 25 indiana bois and our bois had

1 Canon but the boisheard them wit wel they hit til the C’s retreated back about

2 miles and thenthey quit fiering and broke back as fast as they Could So our bois

did not fier on themafter that and the kild 100 of the C’s and took 25 horses and any

amount of Guns andwe lost the hole amount of 11 kiled & 17 wounded

Wel Silas I want youto let Ephraim Se this leter So that he Can hear from Me and

let him know how Iam ageting along tel him that I hav rote to him Evry time that

I rote to ? I havhas been 2 a furlo? Given Within the 2 last days but I am notanxioust

to Come home yet awhile and it wil Cost a man 12 dolars to Come home and

nothing to Comeback. I Want you to Give althe Girls and bois My best respects and

let E pah rahimthat I want him to rite and father I draw pay in about 2 Weaks and

then I wil sent yousome more Money Wel ……………..but al be in Good Cheer

we wil be home soon

from your Sick boyLenee? Fatta?

CampWood (Fort Wood):Established 1861 on N side of Munfordville.

UnionCamp (Fort) Wood was first established here in late 1861 on thenorth-side of town, with a three-gun battery on Wood\'s Hill. Afterthe Confederates briefly occupied the town in September 1862, theUnion built Fort Craig on the site of an earlier CSA fort inWoodsonville,and a log Stockade at the railroad bridge, as well as Forts Terrilland Willich, along with Batteries Simons and McConnell , on thenorth-side of the Greenriver.

Therailroad bridge over the Green River at Munfordville made thesecurity of the town absolutely crucial to the Union war effort, ascontrol of the bridge meant control of the Union supply line intomiddle Tennessee. As a consequence, Munfordville found itself underthe weight of a continuous Union military presence from late 1861until late 1865, with the exception of only a few days in September1862 when Bragg\'s army captured the garrison.

Inearly December 1861 McCook was ordered to move his division toMunfordville to protect the bridge. Some regiments of the 2ndDivision left Camp Nevin and encamped at Bacon Creek (nowBonnieville), moving on to Munfordville the next day, where theyestablished Camp Wood on the north and west sides of town. Thesefirst regiments included all of Johnson\'s 6th Brigade, two regimentsof Rousseau\'s 4th Brigade, and Battery A 1st Ohio Light Arty., whichbecame part of Negley\'s 7th Brigade.

Camp Wood was namedin honor of the Hon. George Wood, a member of the Kentucky MilitaryBoard, a resident of Munfordville and father to Gen. Thomas J. Woodof the 5th Brigade. Private Lyman Widney (34th Illinois Inf.) wrotein his diary that:\"Ourentire brigade pitched its camp on the farm owned by the father ofour beloved commander, Gen. T.J. Wood, where the former stillresided. The General set up his spacious tend in the orchards underthe same boughs that sheltered him in infancy and boyhood.\"Theseforces would see little action in the Munfordville area, with theexception of the Battle of Rowletts Station on December 17, 1861. Forthe most part, the soldiers were set to work repairing the railroadbridge, which the Confederates had destroyed at the approach of theUnion forces) and constructing earthworks on the south side of theriver. Most troops spent time drilling.

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