Antietam Civil War Graphic Battle Letter 60th New York Infantry John Stevens

  
Antietam Civil War Graphic Battle Letter 60th New York Infantry John Stevens. This is an awesome letter written by John Stevens of the 60th New York Infantry to his uncle Henry a few weeks after the battle of Antietam. He writes on October 9,1862 about the battle on the 17th.

He writes - We saw men fall in every direction. There are some got fingers shot off.

I never got touch at all, but it got shot all round us. The bombs shells cut the tips of the trees off.

The next day the Rebels turned black as a nigger. We saw some without any head. Some shot through the guts. The battle was in the cornfield.

There was a Rebel to every corn hill. The field was covered with Rebel and where we was in the woods covered with rebels and our men too, and ground black with them. It was hard to see them lay there bleeding to death. I can on this mountain and shit clean to Harpers Ferry which is a distance of 2 miles. I can do it every time.

In very good condition with the cover envelope. John Stevens participated in the battle of Antietam then was captured at Chancellorsville in 1863 and paroled 5/15/63 and then wounded at Kennesaw Mountain. He was mustered out on 7/17/65.

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