Brooks, Edgar (SC 3607)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

8-18-2021

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3607. Letter, 27 June 1862, of Edgar Brooks, Atlanta, Illinois, serving with the 7th Illinois Infantry. Writing from Tilton, Georgia, he describes his regiment’s recent movements through the state and comments on the countryside, the destruction at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Confederate raids on railroads and bridges. He also remarks on the procession of rail cars carrying Union wounded and Confederate prisoners.

Disciplines

United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Brooks, Edgar (SC 3607)" (2021). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4958.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4958