Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Gooch, Horace, 1832-1912. Scrapbook, 1853-1874. 1 volume.
Call No.
Mss. SB G645
Content
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings related to the Civil War. Topics include Union troops in Louisville, the reception of the president's Proclamation, news of battles, Jefferson Davis, and Kentucky's reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation. It also includes a list of Louisville men liable to be drafted and a broadside with Braxton Bragg's address about the Confederate Army in Kentucky. The scrapbook also contains clippings of local and national news such as the wedding of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, the Episcopal Church split in 1873, and the fire at Gatt House in Louisville.