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Creation Date
4-25-1862
Description
. . . the Hotel was scattered to the four winds Gen Hindman and other officers sent some to their homes. Some was distributed about Bowling Green. I got my Rail Road stock transferred at Louisville. It is worth but 10 percent. It may be better after a while. It appears that every thing I had, has been depreciated by this war. We have been trying to get our stock recruited in the store but make slow progess. We will in time get all right. The dutch besides taking away boxes of goods bored in every barrell in the cellar. We had fine wines which they disposed of. They filled their canteens with varnish thinking it syrup and leaving it to run away. The only satisfaction we have in our loss is that had Mitchell not arrived as he did the whole town would have been destroyed by fire.
From all I can learn the dead were well buried. I have been about but little. I have not yet visited Bakers hill. I have hardly had the time to go out to my little farm. I do not look for much sickness this sum- mer. There has been some Typhoid Fever in town but no serious cases. They all readily yield to medicine. There were not many deaths among the citizens . . .
Keywords
U.S. Civil War 1861-1865, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Cave City