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7:00 AM PT - Nov 20th, 2008
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A good war-date Union officer's letter, written by Michigan native 1st Lt. Hiland H. Weaver, 3rd Iowa Battery, 3p. quarto, ink, Helena, Arkansas, October 8, 1862, and reads in part: "...all of the troops except our division have been removed from here. I do not know where to but I expect to Kentucky...I suppose that the reason that we were left was because we have been the hardest used and that it would be easier for us to stay here than to go on a march...I was out yesterday...with a party of men there was about a dozen of us...we went to our well to water our horses and mules while we were watering I discovered a band of rebels about twenty in number. They came up with in about a quarter of a mile of us and stopped, as we had no arms with us we thought we would get out of there as soon as we could so we started for camp and kept our eye pealed for them but they kept their distance. I would like to have had our men armed and taken after them. I would have liked the fun, I went about three miles and got some cavalry and they went after them. I told them that if they would give me a gun I would go with them but they had no spare gun as I would not go to be shot at and not have anything to shoot back with...it makes a fellow feel rather strange to see a squad of armed men coming toward a fellow and not to have anything to defend ourself with..." VG.
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