Asahel W. Thompson Jr. to Asahel W. Thompson and Nancy Thompson, 7 July 1864
line of Battle ten miles from Atlanta             
July 7th 1864  
 
Father & Mother this short epistle will inform you that I received yours of 25th in due time & was read with great pleasure my health is very good except a hard cold & cough my leg has been a great deal of pain to me for the last weak Father we are in ten miles of Atlanta the two armies are clost fronting each other I have had some fighting to do since the dait of my last letter I spent the fourth of July on the skirmishing line the yankes advanced in seventy five paces of our line when they received a brisk fier from our lines which maid them skedaddle back I run a very nary escape we was be hind very inferier works of old rails & some durt threw on them when a ball past threw them with ful force pasing so neare my head that I did not know which side it went turn over 
 
Father I was struck the other day side of my head rite in my left eare but being a spent ball it did not hurt me very bad had one ball shot threw my oil cloth wonding a member of my Company in the leg Father I feal that God is with me if not I could not be able to pen out this letter to you knowing what I have whent threw since I left Dalton the casalties of my Company since we left Dalton is three kiled six wounded one lost his right arm Mother I often think of youre table our rashing are bacon & corn bread we have to frie it in our plats I have got so I cannot eat it fried any longer I boil some in my cup & eat but I am geting very puny as I cannot change my diet the soldiers are using [?] pusley kerleswead maypap briarleavs & many other weads for salet my Company uses the aboved names for salet the boys are nearly starved out for vegetables but they are like me cannot help them selvs answer in hast give me all the newes from J G & C S let them heare from me I have not time to write to them as their is fighting all the time in our front A W Thompson to         A W Thompson   N Thompson
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(4241)DL1921.001203Letters1864-07-07

Collection of 3 Letters relating to Private A. W. Thompson, 6th Arkansas Infantry: (1/3) Letter by Private A. W. Thompson, 6th Arkansas Infantry, In Line of Battle ten miles from Atlanta, Georgia, July 7, 1864, to his Parents, A. W. Thompson, Jefferson, South Carolina, re: Battle for Atlanta, Georgia, close fighting; With Cover; (2/3) Letter by Private A. W. Thompson, 6th Arkansas Infantry, In Line of Battle In front of Atlanta, Georgia, July 7, 1864, to his sister, A. W. Thompson, Jefferson, South Carolina, re: Battle for Atlanta, Georgia; With Cover; (3/3) Letter by William F. Pearson, Missionary to the Army, Griffin, Georgia, August 11, 1864, to A. W. Thompson, re: Pearson writes as a volunteer on behalf of Thompson's critically wounded son, Private A. W. Thompson, 6th Arkansas Infantry


Tags: Atlanta Campaign, Death (Military), Food, Guns, Illnesses, Injuries, July 4th

People - Records: 3

  • (5017) [writer] ~ Thompson, Asahel W. Jr.
  • (5018) [recipient] ~ Thompson, Nancy
  • (5019) [recipient] ~ Thompson, Asahel W.

Places - Records: 1

  • (162) [origination] ~ Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia

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Asahel W. Thompson Jr. to Asahel W. Thompson and Nancy Thompson, 7 July 1864, DL1921.001, Nau Collection