Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
6-12-2017
Abstract
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3124. Letter, 21 February 1862, of attorney Rufus B. Cowing, New York City, to his mother. He encloses a letter from his brother (not included), who was then serving in the Union Army and would later be killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. Rufus notes his brother’s arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky after “the enemy had run away.” Believing the war will soon end, he speculates on his brother’s future in business and writes of his own desire to be financially independent.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Cowing, Rufus Billings, 1840-1920 (SC 3124)" (2017). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4310.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4310
Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu