(CIVIL WAR OHIO) Hebron John L Letter describing his regime

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(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Hebron, John L. Letter describing his regiment's first skirmish. Autograph Letter Signed to mother. 2 pages, 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, "wrote on an old piece of paper that I picked up in an old law office"; moderate wear and soiling. Camp Leslie Combs, [West Liberty, KY], 25 October 1861

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John L. Hebron (1842-1914) of Steubenville, OH was a bugler in the 2nd Ohio Infantry. This letter describes the regiment's first taste of combat, a skirmish at West Liberty, KY. It went well: "We met the enemy, about 200 strong. They fired first without doing any damage, then we tore down a fence and got in a field and throwed a shell among them, which scattered them in every direction. They all broke for the hills." Next the Ohio boys "throwed 2 shells into the town about a half a mile distant. . . . The inhabitants fled in all directions. The cavalry went after the soldier secesh and killed 6 or 7 of them while they only wounded one of the cavalry. . . . They left blankets, their grub, and everything else. They thought they were going to take us right away, but they was sold."