Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Thurman, Edward C., 1882-1950. Collection, 1788-1950. 1.66 cu. ft.
Call No.
Mss. A T539 33,34
Content
A 3 February 1861 letter from M. J. Wright in Kansas to Bohannon & Edwards in Kentucky states "We are all watching your prosedings in that state [Kentucky] and for one I will say that the sooner you sever the cords of the union the better it will be for you you cannot remane in the union in pease & retane your slaves" (33). A 25 January 1861 letter from John Donan to J. W. Edwards discusses the "Virginia resolutions" being discncced in the Kentucky legislature and states that "What is called the border Confederacy is bitterly denounced by man of the most prominent Bell & Douglass men" (34).