2023-08 Raynors HCA Live
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A Confederate Letter written by Freeman Walker who enlisted on 3/4/1862 as a private into K Company, Georgia 27th Infantry. He died 6/27/1864. The 2pp. letter is datelined James Island SC, December 16, 1863, in part, "As I have just returned from Fort Sumter ... I stayed three days over the usual time in consequence of high winds and rough seas .. I had the good fortune to escape unhurt except a lick on the head from a brickbat which was knocked off the top of the wall by a 200 pound Parrot shell. I was walking outside the of the wall and come very near being covered up with brick. .. There were several killed and wounded while I was there, and the day after I was relieved, the magazine exploded killing ten and wounding thirty. ... Dr. Ford who used to practice medicine at Pleasant Hill was killed. His body was so blackened and burnt that it was past recognition
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