MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
8-1-2003
Abstract
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1364. Letter, 22 February 1862, written by U.S. Army surgeon William H. Githens, Birds Point, Missouri, to his wife describing conditions, especially in Cairo, Illinois, and mentioning the activity at Forts Holt and Payne across the river in Kentucky. He includes a sketch of these fortifications.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (SC 1364)" (2003). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 191.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/191
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu