MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
11-26-2018
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3300. Letter, 2 January 1862, to John Dennis and his parents, Richland County, Ohio from John’s brother. In camp near Bardstown, Kentucky with the 64th Regiment, Company B, Ohio Volunteers, he praises Kentucky’s farms, crops and springs, and refers to two men of his acquaintance: William Clark, who is serving with the Confederate Army, and Charles Clark, who he met in Louisville, Kentucky and who boasted of his regiment’s superior skills and African American servants. The envelope bears a pro-Union image.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Dennis, John, b. 1832 - Letter to (SC 3300)" (2018). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4540.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4540
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu