(CIVIL WAR PENNSYLVANIA) Green Andrew Y An artilleryman des

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(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) Green, Andrew Y. An artilleryman describes his battery's losses at the Battle of Wauhatchie. Autograph Letter Signed to his uncle. 4 pages, 8 1/4 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; slight toning at folds. Bridgeport, AL, 1 November 1863

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Private Andrew Y. Green of the Pennsylvania Light Artillery Battery E describes the 29 October Battle of Wauhatchie, TN, in which the Confederates under Longstreet made a surprise midnight assault on a smaller Union force led by Brigadier General John White Geary, but were repulsed after heavy fighting and the arrival of Union reinforcements. "It was clear and moonlight. The two lines of battles was not over 75 or 100 yards apart. Our boys say it was the most desperate fighting thay ever had. Our battery . . . lost six men killed and 26 wounded. Among the killed is Lieut. Edward R. Geary, son of Gen. Geary, and first lieut. in the battery. . . . I am proud to say that the few that was left never gave way, but fought on without a commander or a commissioned officer to give orders or cheer them in any way."