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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1445

Civil War: Soldier´s Letters - Atlanta Campaign Good content pair of letters by Albert Webb of the 105th Ohio Infantry. On June 1, 1864, he recounts his recent marching from Ringgold to Tunnel Hill (where they "camped in a reb camp") to Buzzard´s Roost Gap (where "we lay two days and was fighting and cannonading was going on all of the time we was there") to Snake Creek Gap, beyond which, on Friday, May 13, they"lay close by [the enemy] so we could hear them building breastworks and laugh and talk." The next day, "we marched about 1 mile and the balls began to whistle over our heads some. We drove them into their rifle pits and shelled them all the afternoon..." A few days later, "the rebs made a charge on our brest works and met a warm reception...Our men counted 200 killed and how many wounded I cannot tell. After they made the charge then they commenced their retreat for dixie." They march on to Resaca ("quite a nice little town"), cross the Etowah, and on May 28, "our men had a hard fight, and was fighting some every day from the time we left Ringgold..." On August 11, he writes from outside Atlanta that on the third, we left from in front of Atlanta and marched to the wright of the army...They took us into a thick dense of woods and then formed the lines and told us to Build our Breastworks...We had not been at it long before the shell and shot come thick and fast...The next day...as soon as we made any advance we found that they had conciderable forse. But we started up a hoop and a yel and went for them double quick...We went about 50 yards and laid down and the way the balls did come was a caution...We laid there a spell and then was ordered Back to camp again...The next day they must try it over again. They did not get the lines wright before...At the sound of the bugle they was to rais a hoop and go for them and rip rip went the bugle and after them they went. They run onto the rebs before they new it and captured 300 of them. The 105 was forwarded on to the line and then we throwed up some works. We had not got them finished before they shelled us so we was obliged to leave them and hug the ground." Two days later, "General Beard thought we must advance them again some farther so at it we went...They was one of the Boys in Co K eating his breakfast and a sharp shooter shot him through the head. he lived a few moments and died. In a few moments after that one of the Boys in Co C cooking at the fire and he was shot through the wright shoulder and lodged in his left lung...The cannons are whanging a way all of the time. They make the ground tremble so I can hardly write." Fold wear, otherwise VG. With original envelopes; also with an interesting 1880 letter to Webb from a friend who has settled in Kansas and two other items. [7]

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