MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
3-12-2020
Abstract
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3518. Letter, 21 October 1861, to his mother and sisters from James L. Wallar of Marshall, Illinois, serving with the 40th Illinois Volunteers at Paducah, Kentucky. He describes the current circumstances of his regiment: the possibility of winter quarters; the drill and guard routine; construction of fortifications; the wounding of pickets and scouts and the funeral procession of one who was killed; the capture of Confederates; and the local flora. He asks about his crops at home and the possibilities of sale, and notes an “ugly letter” from his wife, who appears to have changed her residence during his absence.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Wallar, James Leaman, 1837-1933 (SC 3518)" (2020). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4822.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4822
James L. Wallar to family, 21 October 1861
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu