Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Taylor-Tatum family. Papers, 1863-1945. 50 items.
Call No.
Mss. C T
Content
This collection includes the Civil War letters of Pvt. John A. Taylor (c. 1840-c. 1886) of the 8th Ky. Cavalry (Union) to his wife Serritha at their Logan Co., Ky. home. His letters document camp life, scouting, and picket duty in the Bowling Green, Ky. region in 1862-1863. He also comments on Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's 1862 Kentucky Campaign and John Hunt Morgan's 1863 Ohio Raid. In reference to the latter operations he quips, "nearly all of the Regiment is up above here after John Morgan and if he don't mind he will never see Dixie again," adding, "they have already whipped him twice up there."