MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
7-7-2017
Abstract
Finding aid and transcription (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3129. Letter, 26 March 1863, of George Messer to his wife Lottie in DeWitt County, Illinois. From Camp Joe Kelly (the name changed, as he notes, to Camp Hobson) near Glasgow, Kentucky, he describes camp life, including the clearing of timber and his duty in the cold and rainy weather. He also praises the hospital facilities and describes a joke played on an officer who returned to camp without a pass. Expecting the war to end soon, he also writes of matters relating to home.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Messer, George, 1833-1863 (SC 3129)" (2017). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4327.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4327
Letter from George Messer to Charlotte Messer
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu