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Anthony W. Ross Civil War Letter Regarding Skirmishes Near Bull Run

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Title	Anthony W. Ross Civil War Letter Regarding Skirmishes Near Bull Run
Subject	Military Ohio Civil War Soldiers Military life
Place	Good Hope (Ohio) Fayette County (Ohio) Fairfax (Virginia) Manassas (Virginia)
Description	Anthony W. Ross wrote this letter to his wife Sarah while he was serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was stationed near Fairfax, Virginia. In August 1862 Ross fought in the Battle of Second Bull Run. This letter was written three months after the battle. Ross describes continuing skirmishes around Bull Run and thanks his wife for a gift of scissors, a comb, a camp pencil, and tobacco. The four-page letter is written on patriotic stationary and measures 5" x 7.5" (12.7 x 19.05 cm). Anthony W. Ross of Good Hope, Ohio enlisted in Company G. of the 73rd OVI (Ohio Volunteer Infantry) on March 23, 1862. He was discharged when his term of service expired on March 24, 1865. His letters to his wife were written from Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. The 73rd OVI saw action at the second battle of Bull Run, where it lost 150 men, in August 1862. After a few months near Washington, D.C., the regiment fought in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, where another 143 men were killed. In the fall of 1863 they moved south to fight at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge before joining General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Battle of Atlanta and on the infamous March to the Sea.
Creator	Ross, Anthony W.
Date of Original	November 01, 1862
Collection	Sara Emily Ross Papers
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts); VFM 1904
Format	manuscripts
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	Text
Date created	2010-10-19

Title	Om3126_4003163_009
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Full Text	[corresponds to page 1 of Ross Letter dated 1862 Nov 1] Camp Near Fairfax virginia Nov 1st 1862 Dear Wife I take this opportunity to drop you a few lines to let you know that I am well at present I am writing to you this morning in a pine wilderness out on picket Wm Hudnell Brown greiner and one more is on this post which is in a pine and cedar grove we have just got Breakfast over and Hudnell is Boilling Beef for dinner we are all well at presant we moved from centerville last tuesday the Roar of cannon came to our ears again last evening it was at centerville but I have not heard the result of what was done I look for fun before long as skrimishing is
Date created	2008-12-17

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