Manuscript Database

Creator/Title

Green, F. M. Letter, 26 January 1864. ALS, 8 pp.

Call No.

Mss. C G

Content

Green writes from Richmond, KY to his friend Jack Sutherland re: the "variegated" politics of Kentucky, ranging from conservatism to abolitionism; the 1864 Senate election and the various candidates; the abolitionist newspaper correspondents who are "placed all through our state by the radicals of the Northland are "unmitigated scoundrels"; and the Kentucky draft (which he predicts will be"very light") and his plans to avoid it.

Subject Heading

Kentucky - History - Civil War, 1861-1865