Raynors HCA 2017-02
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War-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Elias Baker, Co. G, 46th Illinois Vols., Memphis, Tenn., March 13, 1863, in part: "We arrived in Memphis again yesterday…we rec'd. $26.00 pay before we left Lafayette… I am sorry and ashamed that I could not send more to you…if you knew the circumstances you would not blame me. When we were paid at Moscow it took nearly all to pay some I had borrowed…I want to get a gold pen and a couple pictures taken in a day…the grub that soldiers get it is not impossible to not spend when he has it. There is still four months pay due us….we had a bad day to march on…it rained all the time. Some of the boys fell into the ditches full of water up to their necks…we are going to reinforce the Army of the Cumberland. We rec'd. intelligence of a severe battle at Vicksburg. It is reported that Gen. Logan has cut his way through to the railroad between Vicksburg and Jackson. If that is the case they have the rebels foul. The 11th has likely seen more fighting as they are in Logan's division. The Kansas Jayhawkers captured three hundred guerillas yesterday…near Lafayette. I will send you my likeness as soon as I can…Elias." VG
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