| | 1 | Author: | Senior, Charles Berry | Add | | | Title: | Letter from Charles Berry Senior to his Father, 1864 September 9  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Description: | It is some
time since I wrote but I have not
yet received any answer to my last letter
I should have wrote before but we couldnt
send away any mail & I was waiting for
the taking of Atlanta I still continue to
have the best of health & hope that you may
be all well I have passed safely through this
campaign for I suppose it is through now
as we have been down 10 miles below Janesboro
& have come back & taken our camp hero 6
miles from Atlanta You will see from the
papers the splendid movement of Gen Sherman
by which he so completely bamboosled the
rebs out of their stronghold cut their communica
tion>
& compelled them instead of their burying the
yankee army here as they boasted as they intende
to do to evacuate the town & make the best
of their way southward The whole 16th corps
worked on the Montgomery road for one day quiet
faithful the 7th Iowa had a fine time
destroying that road out to Fairburn,
18 miles fron Atlanta. It
was the first days
work that I ever did on the railway & I liked it first rate. In the morning we went
out without knapsacks
almost on the doublequick
for 8 or 9 miles to the town where we went
to work, and then went back at night.
Next day, the
2nd, 7th Iowa was ordered
to report to Kilpatrick to go with the
cavalry
as a support We did, and started
out with them when about noon we run
into some of the Johnnys. We captured a
negro that escaped from them &
he said
there were 1600 of them. They had a rail
bar
ricade in a large
cornfield We fired a few
shots with the 10 lb. Rodmans belonging
to the
cavalry, when the 2nd Iowa which
was in advance, immediately formed &
charged with a yell up to
the barricade &
took it, the rebs flying like the wind,
the 7th about
40 rods behind as a support. The
2nd lost a number
of men but I never
knew how many. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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