Horace Park letter to J.S. McBeth

Horace Park letter to J.S. McBeth

Letter to one Union Officer to another

This letter was sent by Horace Park, Union Army chaplain and director of the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, to Mack, the rest of the name does not show up. But we can determine that Mack is someone else in the Union Army, because Park tells Mark how General Mcpherson was killed and the importance of this. He would not be sending this letter of importance to just anyone. His letter also contains information about the battles that his army has had against the Confederacy in the month of July. Horace Park goes into great depth about how many soldiers of his that were killed and captured, and how many soldiers his army had captured. Chaplain Park is closing in around Atlanta, this is during the Atlanta Campaign, so this is a detrimental turning point in the Civil War. He tells Mark that he has cut the communications in Atlanta so the Confederacy cannot have outside calls. He also tells Mark that they have captured over 600 Wagons in between Atlanta and Macon. This whole operation was imperative for the whole Atlanta Campaign. The Union Army outplayed the Confederacy in getting to Atlanta and destroying the defenses that were trying to stop General Sherman from burning the city of Atlanta. Horace Park graduated from Yale University, which explains why he was chosen to lead his army in the routes that took extreme intelligence to maneuver his militia through the Confederacy to destroy the communications in Atlanta.

Source: Horace Park letter to J.S. McBeth, ms 2386. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Horace, Park

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Hargrett Libraries

1864

UGA Libraries

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Letter

English

Manuscript