Illinois soldier writes on Christmas Day 1864, tells of Yankee and Rebel soldiers in same hospital ward in Nashville

Cumberland Hospital 1864 Nashville Tenn.. December 25th Dear Father And Mother I thought being as this was cristmas I would write you A fiew lines

Union soldier recouping in Nashville hospital after the Battle of Franklin writes of the great conditions he is experiencing

Cumberland Hospital Nashville Tenn Dec.21, 1864 Dear Father and Mother I thought I would write a fiew lines to let you know that I am

Three weeks after the Battle of Franklin, Confederate newspaper still awaits accurate news of Hood’s losses at Franklin

Richmond Daily Dispatch Wednesday, December 21, 1864 From Hood’s Army We are again, and are likely to be for a week to come, dependent upon

20th Tennessee soldier captured on Dec 16th at Nashville

Henry K. Moss was about 19 years old when he enlisted January 7, 1862 at Camp Trousdale, as a private in Company A, 45th Tennessee

Nashville, December 15-16, 1864

Description: In a last desperate attempt to force Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s army out of Georgia, Gen. John Bell Hood led the Army of

Topographical map of the battlefield at Nashville