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Speed, Louise John, 1863-1953. Papers, 1873-ca. 1938. 18 items.
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The daughter of Thomas S. and Margaret Hawkins Speed of Nelson County, Ky., Louise J. Speed collected materials for a sketch of her uncle, Gen. E. R. S. Canby, who served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Speed's unpublished manuscript, "Recollections of General Canby," contains details of his Civil War service in the western theater, including his repulse of the Confederate invasion of New Mexico (1861-1862) and the capture of Mobile, Ala. (1865).