Fry, Samuel Van Buren, 1840-1903 (SC 3276)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

10-16-2018

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3276. Letter, 31 July 1864, of Samuel V. Fry, 16th Kentucky Infantry, to Ruth Jane Sapp. From Dalton, Georgia, he writes of engaging Confederate forces near Atlanta in a "big fight every day” and hopes to see her if he survives the war. He urges her not to “give me up for lost and take some other gentle man in my place.”

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Fry, Samuel Van Buren, 1840-1903 (SC 3276)" (2018). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4514.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4514