MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
3-17-2014
Abstract
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2815. Letter of Isaac M. Kirby, a captain in the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, written on 10 March [1862] to his aunt from Camp Andy Johnson near Nashville, Tennessee. He reports on his activities over the past month, including a march north toward Fort Donelson, a mock skirmish with some local bird life, a march to Bowling Green, Kentucky and two-day encampment there, and current conditions at Camp Andy Johnson. He also comments on the greater number of Union sympathizers in Kentucky than Tennessee, and on attacks on pickets by Confederate rangers in the area.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Kirby, Isaac Minor, 1835-1917 (SC 2815)" (2014). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 3531.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/3531
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu