Brimhall, Samuel (nephew of George W.), 1862

File — Box: 3, Folder: 9

Identifier: II

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Scope and Contents

November 22, 1862 - Written from an army camp near Nashville, Tennessee, where Samuel Brimhall was stationed during the Civil War. "I once lived in a happy country and in a happy home but now alas those times have gone and in their place is servile war that is devastating and laying waste our fertile fields into battle grounds and our [illegible] into heaps of bloody [ashes] and every day the war spirit get higher and oh how I should like to go to some peasfull land whare storms of malice never blow and sorrow never can come." He mentions the battles he has been in and the devastation of the surrounding country.

Dates

1862

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