Civil War letters of Charles Atkin, 1863-1865.

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Civil War letters of Charles Atkin, 1863-1865.

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Letters that Charles Atkin wrote to his wife Sarah Hickock Atkin and their children Hortense and Ernest between August 27, 1863 and May 7, 1865. There is a gap in the correspondence between Nov. 8, 1864 and Feb. 10, 1865. Atkins's closely written, literate, and candid letters, contain detailed and insightful accounts of the regiment's organization; promotions, furloughs, and other aspects of camp life; reports of military operations, rumored and real, (including encounters with bands of guerillas); the attack of Confederate forces under the command of John M. Hughes on the town of Glasgow, Ky., on Oct. 6, 1863 and operations against Joseph Wheeler in Aug. 1864; countryside in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee, in particular the lives of local Union sympathizers and African Americans. An avid reader of newspapers and magazines and a self-described Lincoln man, Atkin anxiously followed political and war news, in particular the movements of Grant's and Sherman's armies and the progress of enlistment and drafts in his home state and in Kentucky, including enlistment of black soldiers, and the politics of the 1864 presidential elections.

36 letters.

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