Harding, Aaron, 1805-1875 (SC 3466)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

9-6-2019

Comments

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

Abstract

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3466. Letter, 13 February 1863, of Aaron Harding, Washington, D.C., to Dr. Archibald S. Lewis, Greensburg, Kentucky. Serving in Congress as a representative from Kentucky, Harding reports on his efforts to obtain a promotion to brigadier general for Colonel Edward H. Hobson, including his appeal to President Abraham Lincoln in a “private interview.” He fears that Hobson’s nomination will nevertheless be passed over by the “radicals” in the U.S. Senate, who he criticizes for “sinking themselves and the country lower and lower.” He also refers to a money claim of Lewis’s requiring the approval of the Treasury and the Surgeon General.

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Harding, Aaron, 1805-1875 (SC 3466)" (2019). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4736.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4736