MSS Finding Aids

Publication Date

3-25-2013

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 transcriptions (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2684. Letters of Thomas H. Wells, 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, to his sister Eliza J. Wells in Mogadore, Ohio. He writes from Camp Wickliffe in Larue County, Kentucky, of changes in military structure, of the local landscape, and of being hospitalized with the mumps. He also writes from Louisville, Kentucky, of his clerical work at headquarters, his patriotism, and the possibility of a military draft in Ohio.

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

SC 2684 WELLS Thomas H item 1.doc (37 kB)
Thomas H. Wells to Eliza J. Wells, 7 January 1862

SC 2684 WELLS Thomas H item 2.doc (36 kB)
Thomas H. Wells to Eliza J. Wells, 29 June 1862

SC 2684 WELLS Thomas H item 3.doc (37 kB)
Thomas H. Wells to Eliza J. Wells, 21 August 1862

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