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CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF C. PIERCE, CO. E, 121ST OVI,
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36 items, 1862-1865. One of the bulwarks of the Union army in the west, the 121st Ohio Infantry served in a long list of engagements from Perryville to Bentonville. Clark Pierce of Co. E was older than typical (32) when he left his wife and children at home in Chesterville, Ohio to enlist, and his 36 letters home are filled with action and soldierly excitement. Although he does not describe his first engagement (Perryville) in detail, Pierce does make reference to his unenviable assignment to burial duty on the day after: “we staid on the ground & sent men to bury our dead, the companies was to bury their own dead our company had none to bury & we are glad of that.” He also includes an interesting and vaguely gruesome description of preparing dead to be sent home. The 121st never remained idle for long, and Pierce includes a long (12p.) description of his experience during the Tullahoma Campaign and the march through a Union-friendly part of Tennessee, as well as an outstanding, long letter written during the Battle of Chattanooga: “This is Thursday morning & the fight is still going on... [a few days before] between 10 & 11 oclock orders came for one whole corps to assist the right we started on double quick for the right which was 8 or 10 miles from us got there a little before one oclock & went to work at them the rest I cant describe for it was be[y]ond description, but we continued there til nearly dark when we ware ordered off what was left of us; without ammunition; & when we went in every man had 60 rounds; the commanders say that our brigade saved the day but it was dearly saved by us... I am now the only one left in our mess... [digging in] whiz crack came the shell over our heads we squat[t]ed & doged behind the trees & logs & stumps & some of us that could not get a tree or log or stump or di[t]ch to dog in or behind would lay flat on the ground or dog behind a bush or anything that would cover our heads or look like a shelter; wel we put into it for life & dug & shoveled away & them still throwing their cold iron among us & over us & so on til dark...” (September 24, 1863). Pierce’s correspondence includes other fine letters describing engagements during the Atlanta Campaign, two from Savannah written at the end of the March to the Sea, and one from Goldsborough, N.C., at the end of the war. Filled with content on military life, combat, and a cocky attitude earned through hard service and hard won victory. Some letters in very faint pencil or pen (legible in strong light or better in black light), with expected wear and minor soiling.
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