MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
1-9-2024
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3707. Letters of Connecticut native Obadiah M. Knapp, written during his U.S. Army Civil War service. A steward at the Army’s General Hospital in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he writes of conflict between the hospital surgeon, with whom Knapp wishes to advance his medical studies, and a commanding officer. He also describes the welcome arrival of a chaplain, local prejudices against Northerners and abolitionists, the threat of guerrillas, and the development of hospital facilities in Bowling Green to treat both whites and African Americans. The original letters are held by the University of Texas at Austin.
Disciplines
United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Knapp, Obadiah Mead, 1841-1921 (SC 3707)" (2024). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 5108.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/5108
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu