Manuscript Database

Creator/Title

Edmund T. Halsey Coll.

Call No.

Mss. A H196 48

Content

Vance, Morgan. To wife (Susan Vance). Louisville, Ky., Oct. 21, 1862. 1 p. A.L.S. Has seen several persons from Mercer but can learn nothing of "our affairs" 1 Colonel Grigsby is reported to have been shot dead; Philip Thompson's son John as killed at Augusta; Col. (William P.) Hart has rendered himself so obnoxious to he Union men of the County as to render is stay there unsafe; Hart Gibson went off leaving his effects behind; Beauford let his wife in charge of his farm; Mrs. Henry's illness; will go to Frankfort tomorrow; "We have a large force there & at Lexigton today. " In : Edmund T. Halsey Coll.

Subject Heading

Kentucky - History - Civil War, 1861-1865