[Civil War]: Humiston, Aubert E.:

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[COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN LETTERS FROM UNION INFANTRY PRIVATE AUBERT E. HUMISTON WRITTEN TO FAMILY MEMBERS WHILE SERVING IN COMPANY K OF THE 81st OHIO INFANTRY WITH CONTENT OF ENGAGEMENTS DURING THE ... An engaging collection of Civil War letters from an eighteen-year-old Union private, Aubert E. Humiston of Galion, Ohio, to various members of his family, written during the time he served in Company K of the 81st Ohio Infantry in the Army of the Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign. Humiston records his initial impressions as a raw recruit seeing African-American Confederate prisoners being sent to Chicago, tells of a duty station near Pulaski, Tennessee, where he helped to run a steam-powered saw and grist mill, and describes his manner of living while stationed in Tennessee, including a pencil sketch of his small barracks. Humiston's letters change dramatically when the 81st Ohio becomes an active part of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and become filled with descriptions of the battles he has seen, including Resaca and the Battle of Dallas. He later describes his recovery from serious illness in a hospital in Kingston, Georgia, and vents his anger and frustration with the Union Army in not mustering out the 81st Ohio more quickly when the war ended.The first letter of the collection, written from Cairo, Illinois, in October of 1862, Humiston writes to his father about Rebel troops they encounter: "We are all well and shall not stay hear only until this evening when we shall go o

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