Cooke, Chauncey H
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Letters of a Badger Boy in Blue: The Atlanta Campaign: This is the fifth and concluding part of the correspondence of teenager Chauncey H. Cooke (1846-1919), and describes his experiences traveling through Alabama and Tennessee with the 25th Infantry in the summer of 1864 to participate in the Atlanta Campaign. The 19 letters discuss life on the road, escaping slaves, railroad troop transport, Confederate prisoners of war, and episodes of battle. He gives vivid accounts of the engagements at Resaca, Georgia, and Kenesaw Mountain, and describes the battlefield of Chickamauga littered with recent graves. The letters provide intimate glimpses into his personal life, such as sleep deprivation, coping with the horror of seeing 2, 000 soldiers killed in an hour, and passing among the corpses. The final letter is written from a field hospital at Marietta, Georgia, where Cooke was recuperating from unspecified injuries. (35 pages)
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