Raynors HCA 2017-02
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A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Henry H. Fulton, Co. E, 20th Ohio Vols. [shot by Rebel guerrillas near Pine Level, N. C.,4/10/65; DOW Raleigh, 4/12/65], Decatur, Ala., May 27, [1864], in part: "…we left Cairo the 10th of May and went from them to Cliffton on boats. Cliffton is on the Tenn. river about 30 miles below Pittsburg Landing. We marched…from there…140 miles. We come by Pulaski and Huntsville. The country…is very rough and rocky and full of iron ore…[there are] furnaces every few miles…Pulaski…is a splendid country the best I have yet seen in the south…they are farming the country all through Tenn. and north of the Tenn. river in Alabama…we forded the Elk river. Itv was waist deep and it would have made you laugh ot have seen officers and men strip off and get all their things on their shoulders, hold up their shirt tails and wade through and climb the bank on the opposite side. Harper ought to have had an artist there. The next day we passed Elkmont springs, a Southern watering place. There is hotel, billiard saloons, ten pin alliyes card tables, ball rooms etc there, but the place is going down since the war. I drank of the water. It is mineral of some kind. Huntsville is the nicest town I ever saw. It is larger than Newark [and is] on the Memphis & Charleston Rail-Road. There is a spring there that runs more water than Owl Creek…three is machinery run by the spring that forces the water all over town. The water is cold and very pure. I saw Harve Keckly at Huntsville. He is working in a wagon shop. He has a nice place to work and likes it very well…[much on friends and family members in other regiments]…Decatur is on the south side of the Tenn. river 30 miles west of Huntsville. It had been a good town but is destroyed a good deal and forts all through the town. There was a skirmish there yesterday and two of the 17th N. Y. killed. I have got along nice on this march. I was detailed ot go with the division train at Cliffton and [I] have got every thing hauled even gun and accouterments. We stand 3 hours guard every other night and get to ride all the way…we will go to Rome, Georgia…Henry." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. VG
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