Johnson, Samuel F. (SC 3442)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

6-11-2019

Comments

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

Abstract

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3442. Telegram, 17 October [1864], from Hopkinsville, Kentucky of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel F. Johnson to Colonel Cicero Maxwell in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He advises that Confederate General Hylan B. Lyon’s troops are in Providence, Kentucky “sweeping every horse mule & man in their course.” Johnson asks for mounted troops and a supply of ammunition to be sent to him at Russellville, Kentucky, failing which Lyon’s troops “will get out with their plunder & hundreds of recruits.”

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Johnson, Samuel F. (SC 3442)" (2019). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4708.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4708