An Ohio Soldier Predicts The Fall Of Fort Fisher And The End Of The Confederacy

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War-date Union soldier's letter, 2pp. folio, written in pencil by Pvt. John W. Boston, Co. G, 81st Ohio Vols, Camp at Savannah, Ga., Jan. 8, 1865, reading, in part: "...There is some hopes of the war being over in a few months. The rebels are beginning to quake about the Confederacy and General Stoneman has been successful on his raid in Southwest Virginia and General Thomas his victory of Nashville over load capturing all his artillery and our capture of Savannah with 252 pieces of artillery and ammunition and I think that Charleston will be the next scene of operation and I have not the least doubt in the world but Wilmington will go by the board for they have all ready silenced the guns of Fort Fisher and captured the colors of the fort and the fort may be in our possession...". Boston enlisted, at age 29, in late summer 1862 and fought at the battles of Corinth, Atlanta and Bentonville, N. C. He lived to 1918 dying August of that year. VG.

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