MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
5-14-2019
Abstract
Finding aid 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). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4696.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4696
Letter from John Randoph McBride to Lucas F. Smith, 1 May 1862
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu