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Letter from John W. Turner, 18649776 Reads
  Headquarters Co, B,. 84th Reg.Blue Springs, Tenn April 11, 1864 Dear Aunt, It is with great pleasure that I seat my self to drop you a few lines of pleasure. I am well and harty and hope this may find you the same. It has bin a long time since I have heard from you
and I thought I would write you a few lines to see if I couldnt
get a answer. Well, I will change subjects, I have hurd that
Uncle Will has come home on furlough and re enlisted for three
years longer. Well, If I dont git to come home on furlough until
I enlist for three years, I will stay my time out and then they cant
git me to stay any longer but we dont have to stay only seventeen
months longer any how and that wont be long and I heard uncle
Washington More had enlisted in the 19th Regiment and I want you to
write and tell me whether he had or not. If he has, he will wish
him self out before he git out but I say it is the duty of all loyal
men to take the place of the old soldiers that is coming out this
summer, some may say, well, I am good looking , or to well off, or
my business is so I cant go to the army, well, I say they dont know
anything a bout it for there as many men in the army that has business
left in the hands of some man or woman as there is good looking men in
the army or as sick men in the army as their is at home. Well, I
must bring my letter to a close by asking you to write as soon as you
git, direct to Chattanooga, Tenn. so no more at present but still
remain you Nephew untill death
John W. Turner To Catherine Hawk Blountsville, Henry County, Ind. |
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Seven solid days of bombardment ended at Charleston, S.C. The Union fired some 1,307 rounds.
1864: Eight days of cavalry clashes in Georgia come to an end when Union General Judson Kilpatrick and Confederate General Joseph Wheeler skirmish for a final time at Waynesboro. Although the Rebels inflicted more than three times as many casualties as the Yankees, the campaign was considered a success by the Union because it screened Wheeler from the main Union force. 1864: U.S.S. Moose, Lieutenant Commander Fitch, U.S.S. Carondelet, Acting Master Charles W. Miller, U.S.S. Fairplay, Acting Master George J. Groves, U.S.S. Reindeer, Acting Lieutenant Henry A. Glassford, and U.S.S. Silver Lake, Acting Master Joseph C. Coyle, engaged field batteries on the Cumberland River near Bell's Mills, Tennessee, silenced them, and recaptured three transports taken by the Confederates the preceding day. 1942: During the first American raid on the mainland of Italy the US 9th Air Force bombs the harbor at Naples causing damage and sinking two cruisers. 1943: The Japanese escort carrier Chuyo is sunk by the US submarine Sailfish in Japanese home waters. 1943: The US divisions on Bougainville receive further reinforcements and extend their perimeter. 1943: Task Force 50, commanded by Admiral Pownall, and a task force commanded by Admiral Montgomery attack Kwajalein with a combined fleet of 6 carriers and nine cruisers. 1944: The USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. The USS Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II. 1944: US 9th Army ceases the offensive toward the Roer River. The US 3rd Army forces of US 20th Corps concentrates forces for the capture of Saarlautern, where reconnaissance indicates there is an intact bridge over the Saar River. 1950: Marines rescued over 300 soldiers of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, survivors of a communist ambush on the shores of the Chosin/Changjin Reservoir. |
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