Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
5-1-2005
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1420. Letter written by Union soldier John (no last name), Camp Paint Creek, Kentucky, to his wife (no place noted), graphically describing marching from Winchester, Kentucky, to present camp. He mentions that Kentucky has the dirtiest soldiers he has ever seen.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military life (SC 1420)" (2005). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 108.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/108
SC 1420 CIVIL War - Military life.doc (452 kB)
Letter from John to his wife 8 May 1863
Letter from John to his wife 8 May 1863
Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu