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THB7th Ohio Letter with Detailed Map of Chattanooga, TN and Six Stamped Covers
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LiveJun 22, 2018
Cowan’s American History: Premier Auction, scheduled for June 22, 2018 is comprised of early photographs, documents, manuscripts, broadsides, flags, and more dating from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Late Indian Wars, World War I and II and beyond. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Letter, hand-drawn map, and six covers associated with George Culver. The letter is 2pp, written from US General Hospital, No. 3 Lookout Mountain, TN, February 8th, /65. The database only shows one George W. Culver who was still in service (Ohio) in 1865, and he enlisted in the 3rd Ohio Cavalry in August 1862 and mustered out at Nashville, TN (putting this soldier in the right part of the country).
Most of the letter is personal (and much concerns an unnamed person who had recently died). "Our dearly beloved friend has only gone a little before us. I shall never forget how happy & joyful he was when he knew he was going home to heaven. He will never return to us, but we may go to meet him..."
However, even though he did not mention any battles in his letter, Culver did draw a map of the area around Chattanooga. The map is 7.5 x 9.5 in. and he includes: the Tennessee River, with the Union Camp tucked in a bend of the river, surrounded on three sides by water; Union rifle pits across the river; Missionary Ridge dominating the top of the map; Point Lookout; the city of Chattanooga very near the Union camp; the Chattanooga & Nashville RR; a wagon road; two Rebel camps; and camps of the 4th Corps, 5th Ohio, and 27th Ohio.
Some foxing along fold.Condition
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