Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

5-1-2005

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 1422. Letter, 6 November, to his mother from “Alvis”(?), probably serving with the 9th Illinois Infantry. From Camp Paine, Paducah, Kentucky, he writes of living conditions, a skirmish with Confederate forces, his hopes to experience a full battle, and his belief that the Confederates have better officers, but inferior soldiers.

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

SC 1422 CIVIL War - Paducah typescript.doc (34 kB)
Letter of Alvis?, 6 November 1861(?)

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