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The Nashville Daily Union
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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Letter dated July 31, 1865, from Washington D.C. to Nashville Union editor describes Mrs. Karis L. Pyle's plight: her husband Amos W. Pyle (Co. K, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers) captured at Gaines' Mill in June 1864, last letter from Libby Prison. Lightning killed her two sons; she survives with infants in distress at Avoca, WI, seeking husband's fate info via Clara Barton.
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Editor Nashville Union,—One of the best Mrs. Karis L. Pyle, of Avoca, Wisconsin. Her husband Amos W. Pyle, Co. K, 6th, Wisconsin Volunteers, was captured Gaines' Mill, about the 1st of June, 1864. On the 11th of that month, he wrote to his wife from the Libby Prison, the last word she had been able to hear of him. The night the letter reached her, the lightning descended the stove pipe, killed her two sons in one bed—and missed the mother on it: In a few minutes more, there would have been no survivor of the family left. She escaped with two infant children, with whom she is now living at Avoca, in a state of great distress. Any one who can, give information respecting the fate of the husband, is requested to transmit it to Miss Clara Barton, Washington D.C. and any newspaper, particularly in the South, will do a kindness to the afflicted wife by copying this article.
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requests information on the fate of amos w. pyle, captured union soldier last heard from in libby prison, to be sent to miss clara barton, and asks newspapers, especially in the south, to copy the article to help his distressed wife mrs. karis l. pyle.
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