Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Bush-Beauchamp Family Papers, 1835-1982.
Call No.
Mss. A B978 1, 27-29, 37, 43
Content
Corres. of Bush-Beauchamp family members re: draft in Ky. during Civil War, quotas, raids on livestock by soldiers of both sides, troops in Louisville, Paducah and other towns, the Union blockade of Louisville and Ind. ports across the river from it, adverse comments on the Lincoln administration, officer promotions, slaves running away, guerrilla raids in Missouri, trouble with "colored persons" in that state, and deaths of family members in the war. ' Corres from 1861- 1865. Also mention of Gen. W.T. Sherman's funeral in a letter, 22 Feb. 1891, from Ann M. Bush to her mother, Mrs. C.D.L. Stone. In fl. 37 are certificates of membership in various Confederate groups as well as in the U.D.C., 1910-1946.