Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Anonymous To "dear Auntie, " n.p. Camp East of Louisville, Ky., 28 Sept. 1862. ALS, 3 pp.
Call No.
Mss. C A
Content
Union Army soldier's letter noting that he had "experienced the mutations of the soldiers' life; " his troop going to Louisville on "first class boats; " that between 6 or 8 thousand troops were on 10 or 11 steamboats; working on entrenchments around the city; camp life; rumors; the arrival of D.C. Buell's army of "30,000 or 50,000 strong;" and notes the officers' complaints that "they were not allowed to attack Bragg's army. Notes that he was in the 88th Ill. Reg.