Civil War Letters: Ohio

2nd Ohio Cavalry – An Amazing Letter Fighting Quantrill in Kansas – “The bullets whistled and blood flowed” – James W. Earl, Co. E



7th Ohio Vol. Inf. Letter – Battle Action at Lookout Mountain

21st Ohio Infantry – Battle of Chickamauga Letter – Armed with Colt Revolving Rifles, when they ran out of ammunition they made 3 bayonet charges!

34th Ohio Battle Letter by Franklin L. Allen – Writing from Fort Toland, West Virginia, with Cover

48th Ohio Infantry Letter – Near Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee, March 23rd, 1862 – “I visited the ground where the Secesh buried their dead… I saw the faces of two & one breast looked very bad… shot in the breast & above the eye… the stench was very bad.”

98th Ohio Infantry Battle Letter – Marietta, Ga. July 1st, 1864 – “A truce was had to bury our dead. It was a sad task and a hard one as the smell was sickening.”

“Camp 99th O.V.I. near Atlanta, Ga. July 15th, 1864” – “Sherman is still drawing them on down the railroad until he has got them almost all together out of Atlanta”

110th O.V.I. – Sergt. R. V. McCollum Writes of the Fate of Fellow P.O.W. Asa L. Collins of the 106th N.Y. Infantry – Both were P.O.W.’s at Danville, Virginia – Matching U.S. Christian Commission Stationary & Cover with Chaplain’s Endorsement