Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Good, George W. Letter, 24 April 1865. 3 pages.
Call No.
Mss. C G
Content
A letter written during the Civil War by George W. Good, a soldier in Company I of the 34th Illinois Infantry. Good writes to his uncle Hiram Knox on 24 April 1865 from Jefferson Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Good writes about his health, especially his "sore eyes", and begs for further news about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he believes his uncle was in Washington, D.C. at the time. He also comments on the number of guerrillas executed each week in Louisville, hoping that similar treatment is meted out to rebel officers by the new president Andrew Johnson.