Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
King, Oliver N. Letter, 28 June 1862. 2 pages.
Call No.
Mss. C K
Content
A letter written during the Civil War by Oliver N. King, a soldier in Company I of the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry. King writes on 28 June 1862 to a friend "Dorman" from Camp Butler, Illinois, where he is a prisoner of war. King writes about a mutual friend named John Evans; his hopes for a prisoner exchange; fishing in Kentucky creeks; and the newspapers available to prisoners at Camp Butler, especially his desire to read the Democrat for local news. (King later joined the 7th Kentucky Cavalry where he served under John Hunt Morgan and participated in Morgan's infamous raid.)