union Soldier Correspondence An extraordinary lot of 14 Als 45pp. total of two brothers serving with the 37th and 96th Illinois Vols both of whom died during the war The letters by John and David Baker are to their Parents all but one in ink and all clearly legible, many with patriotic covers and letter heads. Excellent content a fight at Fort Donelson 5 thousand rebels and 7 company of our men rebels got licked like devil took 70 prisoners now 87 men in our company Fremont and General Hunter have taken this place went into a secesh house to get something to eat would not give us any because we was damn Union soldiers We had our guns loaded and bayonets on ready 500 rebel prisoners in the hospital close by hardest looking lot of men 100 that I saw that would never recover legs arms shot off John Morgan has taken 4 regiments prisoner six hundred lost rebs made a charge on our cavalry With their records and regimental history