Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Hume, Cora (Owens), 1848- (Mrs. William Garvin Hume) Journal, 1863-1866. 3 vols.
Call No.
Mss. A H921 1-3
Content
Private journal, Jan. 19, 1863 - June 5 1866, kept by Cora Owens, daughter of William Owens, Jr., iron merchant of Louisville Ky., formerly of Logan County, Ky. It contains a record of events in Louisville during the Civil War and notes on her school- Kentucky in July, 1862; arrival of Federal forces at Georgetown on day following Morgan's departure; arrest of Southern sympathizers by Federal authorities; Johnston's flight from his home in Scott County to Chattanooga where he joined staff of General Bragg; subsequent military service until he return to Georgetown, May 25, 1865.