Manuscript Database

Creator/Title

Camp Ella Bishop Broadside. 28 October 1862. 2 items.

Call No.

Mss. C C

Content

Copy of a general order from Brigadier General G. Clay Smith proclaiming that a camp in Lexington be named for Ella Bishop, a young woman who rescued a United States flag and waved it proudly as Confederate soldiers attempted to desecrate it and replace it with their own.

Subject Heading

Kentucky - History - Civil War, 1861-1865