Daniel, Hannah (Lewis) Hawkins, 1833-1870 (SC 3413)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

4-30-2019

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 3413. Letter, 31 October 1864, of Hannah Hawkins Daniel, Poplar Plains (Fleming County), Kentucky, to her brother Dr. Henry H. Lewis, Salt Lick (Bath County), Kentucky. She writes of a possible raid on Flemingsburg, and of the fate of a party of looters in the area. She also laments the difficulties of horse travel, reports hearing of conflict over the military draft from a correspondent in Iowa, and invites a member of Lewis’s household to visit “if there are no Rebs between here & there.”

Disciplines

Military History | United States History | Women's History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Daniel, Hannah (Lewis) Hawkins, 1833-1870 (SC 3413)" (2019). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4675.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4675