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1861 letter from Walter Emmett Winn at Bull Run in Virginia to his sister
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1861 Letter From Walter Emmett Winn At Bull Run In Virginia to His Sister. . 1861. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54540.APA citation style
(1861). 1861 letter from Walter Emmett Winn at Bull Run in Virginia to his sister. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54540.Chicago citation style
1861 Letter From Walter Emmett Winn At Bull Run In Virginia to His Sister. 1861. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54540.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- During the Civil War, Captain Walter Emmett Winn served in the Eleventh Alabama Regiment. In this letter, Winn discusses the First Battle of Manassas (also known as the First Battle of Bull Run), though Winn’s regiment did not arrive in time to participate in the battle. Winn writes “I only regret that we were not in it, though we tried our best to be and but for a treacherous engineer who was afterward shot we would have been.” In the letter, Winn also describes his feelings towards death: “It is astonishing how soon a man gets accustomed to the horrors of such a scene. I who at first disliked to look at a dead body, could go through a field on which 4 or 5 hundred lay and take an interest in the walk at that.” On June 22, 1864, at the Battle of Petersburg, Winn would be mortally wounded, succumbing to his injuries one month later.
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- Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
- Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Alabama
- Confederate States of America
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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- This digital object is the property of the Samford University Library and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Special Collection, Samford University Library. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this or other images in this collection, please contact the Samford University Special Collection department at scdept@samford.edu