OCTOBER 17, 1861:
Captain
Ujanurtis Allen, a Georgia soldier serving in Virginia wrote home to his wife,
telling of the uncertainty surrounding his situation, and of violating orders
to properly bury a friend: “No soldier is
alowed to go more than a half mile from camp and only for a short time…While I
was away this morning myself and Dr. Hurst made a coffin and assisted by Lee
Crouch and John Mathews buried one of our dear soldiers, Henry W. Crenshaw, who
died on the 14th. Those men would have been put in the guard house and myself
arrested and court martialed if we had been found absent from our regiment.”
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