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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00006
File Unit: 00006.00001
Item: 00012
Title: Letter, August 2, 1864, T. W. Brevard, "In front of Petersburg," to "My Dear Mother," 4 pp., discussing his letter-writing habits and the war: "We are generally in trenches, without any means very often of writing even a note. . . The 'situation' here is unchanged. The armies occupying the same relative positions held five weeks ago. Grant varied the monotony . . . by a few days since exploding a mine beneath one of our batteries . . . The battery was destroyed and the men in it blown up. The enemy poured in through the breach in large numbers . . . The slaughter of the enemy was very great. . . I visited the scene of explosion and fight . . . and the sight was ghastly enough to have satisfied Abe Lincoln himself. The dead covered the ground more thickly than I have ever seen . . . the victims of the explosion particularly were mutilated and disfigured beyond description . . . I am getting uneasy about Atlanta . . . I still hope however to see Shermans communications destroyed and his army defeated. . . Mays is very well - he is not in my regiment but I see him daily - he is a very good officer - stands very well, and is much improved in health."
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