Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (SC 3123)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

6-2-2017

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 typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3123. Letter, 31 July 1862, of Hector V. Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Harlan P. Lloyd, Angelica, New York. He tells his former schoolmate of his law study and practice since graduation from New York’s Hamilton College, and particularly describes the uproar in his home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War: secessionist “treason,” the Confederate occupation, and the rebuilding of the city afterward. He also refers to their classmate and law student Daniel Webster Wright as a “violent” secessionist.

Disciplines

Legal Profession | Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (SC 3123)" (2017). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4311.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4311