Sinnet, Edwin, 1827-1902 (SC 3528)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

5-6-2020

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). Letter, 21 January 1862, written to his wife in Granville, Ohio, by Dr. Edwin Sinnet while serving as a surgeon with the 94th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From Mill Springs Kentucky, he writes of the fate of the Confederate forces after the recent battle: their ill-advised attack from their winter quarters; their flight and abandonment of arms, equipment and horses; their burning of flatboats used to cross the Cumberland River; and the “bloody corpses” scattered across fields and roads. He tells of encountering a survivor still lying wounded on the battlefield.

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Sinnet, Edwin, 1827-1902 (SC 3528)" (2020). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4809.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4809