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A Confederate soldier who, while recuperating from a wound incurred in the battle of Chickamauga, wrote to his parents from Atlanta within a few days of his wounding at Chickamauga.

Records of patients at these four Atlanta hospitals covering this period are found in the Texas Archives in the University of Texas Library (S.H. Stout Collection)

Fairground Hospitals No. 1 & 2, General Hospital, and the Receiving and Distributing Hospital.

"Atlanta, Georgia September 25th 1863

Dear(e) Father and Mother it affords me great pleasure to inform you I am yet living I am in Atlanta in the Hospital I am wounded threw the thigh the bone not hurt I was wounded on the 15th inst in the battle of Chickamauga I left the railrode on the 7th of Sept so I could not get any letters from home if you wrote any I have not heard from G (?) since he left home I have me some cruches made but not able to use them yet I am not able to give you a ful detale of the battle but it was a bloody fought battle We lost more men killed and wounded than any battle before My Capt and First Lt and about 25 men wounded 9 omen kiled some other dangerously wounded We wond a compleat victory we are stil driving the enemy back

Father as soon as I get able to travel I am going to try and get a furlough and come home I think I can get one I am well attended to I have a member of my company to wait on me Answer int he first mail and give me all the news
A W Thompson Jr
Pvt. Co. G, 6th Ark. Inf.

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He was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Columbia, S. C. Returning to duty, he died July 25, 1864 from wounds suffered at Atlanta July 22.

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