Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Spurr family. Papers, 1849-1957. 43 items.
Call No.
Mss. C S
Content
Collection consists of documents belonging to the Spurr family of Fayette County, Kentucky. The collection centers around Richard A. Spurr, Confederate officer in the 8th Kentucky Cavalry and prisoner of war at Fort Delaware during the Civil War. Included in the collection is correspondence, April-May 1865, written to Lieut. Spurr while he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware. See especially a letter dated 6 May 1865 in which Sallie Taylor writes about the loss of the war by the South, lamenting the lives lost "in vain" and reporting that their brave young men are coming home.