MSS Finding Aids

Publication Date

10-23-2015

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and full text transcript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2947. Letter, 13 January 1862, of Confederate soldier J. J. Williams to his wife Emeline. Writing from Bowling Green, Kentucky, he describes troop strengths and movements in the area, the destruction of railroads and blockading of roads by the Confederates, and an anticipated encounter with Union troops at Green River.

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Additional Files
SC 2974 WILLIAMS J J typescript.pdf (170 kB)
J. J. Williams to Emeline Williams, 13 January 1862
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