(CIVIL WAR 1863) Hildreth Oliver B Letter from a veteran re

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(CIVIL WAR--1863.) Hildreth, Oliver B. Letter from a veteran recalling Gettysburg and its aftermath. Autograph Letter Signed to Alcinus Ward Fenton of Cleveland, on letterhead, 4 pages, 9 1/2 x 6 inches. Newton, KS, 15 October 1887

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"I was there, first on the morning of the 2nd of July, at a point about half way between the cemetery and Round Top. I went with our skirmish line clear across the open fields to the peach orchard and brick house. Then to the left to Devils Den, where we had a terrible fight. Then back to the memorable field of that frightful onslaught of the 3rd." Hildreth was stationed at the unit's hospital after the battle, and recalls a Mrs. Wert who supplied milk and eggs to the soldiers--apparently a friend of Fenton's.