Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Marshall, Humphrey, 1812-1872. Papers, 1827-1921 (bulk 1840-1872). 1.33 cubic feet.
Call No.
Mss. A M368 13, 17, 23, 25
Content
In a 2 February 1861 letter to "My Dear Hunter," Marshall describes the national political situation (13). Marshall writes, "It is my opinion the Union is definitely lost and that two confederacies will succeed." In a letter dated 1 October 1866, Marshall writes that the war was "injudiciously conceived, miserably mismanaged, and disgracefully terminated." A 28 April 1863 letter from J. S. Scott discusses Confederate operations around Cumberland Gap. Letters from Edward O. Guerrant and Simon Bolivar Buckner discuss Marshall's election to the Confederate Congress. Guerrant's 16 February 1864 discusses Marshall's support among the troops and describes the voting results in the units stationed with him at Abingdon, Virginia. Buckner's 25 March 1864 letter congratulates Marshall on his election. In postwar correspondence, Marshall discusses the causes of the war. Marshall's journal, which begins in April 1865, covers the flight of the Confederate government from Richmond and includes information on Marshall's journey to Mexico (17). A statement from ca. 1900 and accompanying correspondence regard a cannon that the Union army seized in 1863 (23). In the statement, John Williams claims that the cannon was being used as collateral on a debt owed to Col. Thomas Johnson and that it was not the property of the Confederacy. A number of speech fragments also discuss the war (25).