Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Nelson, William, 1824-1862. Papers, 1861-1862. 38 items.
Call No.
Vault C
Content
Military papers of Major General William Nelson, including letters from E. E. Colburn, J. M. Shackelford, Garrett Davis Thomas E. Bramlette, Mrs. George W. Clinton Stanley Matthews, Col. T. D. Sedgwick, Major General Alexander McDowell McCook, Major James P Harbeson, W. Pryor, and Emma Peterkin; a letter from Major General Nelson to the Editors of the Cincinnati Gazette, Sept. 1, 1862; telegrams, July 16- 18, 1862 from Major General D. C. Buell, Brigadier General J. T. Boyle and Adjutant John W. Finnell about General John Hunt Morgan's raid into Kentucky; telegrams Aug. 26-30, 1862 from Major General H. G. Wright and D. C. Buell, Brigadier General James S. Jackson, Adjutant John W. Finnell and Captain James S. Trott; Alexander K. Marshall's statement of account against the United States for rent of farm known as Camp Kenton for encampment of Nelson's Brigade; inventory of effects and final statement of service of Jonathan P. Allen, private, Co. D, 34th Regt. Indiana Vols. Feb. 5, 1862; Ms. map of a section of Tennessee between Pittsburg Landing and Monterey.