McBride, John Randolph, 1841-1912 (SC 3433)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

5-14-2019

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3433. Letter, 1 May 1862, of John R. McBride to Lucas F. Smith, Bluffton, Indiana. Serving with the 33rd Indiana Volunteers, McBride describes the march from Lexington, Kentucky to their present encampment near Cumberland Ford on the Cumberland River, and the current command structure. He asks about Bluffton’s young women and lightheartedly complains about the absence of eggs from his diet. He also recalls his fortunes after leaving Bluffton, which included a year of homesickness and then enlistment for service in order to return home “with a clear conscience,” having “fought to maintain our old flag.”

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "McBride, John Randolph, 1841-1912 (SC 3433)" (2019). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4696.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4696