Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Ingram, Selena Gray Galt, 1859-1942. Memoirs, circa 1920. 149 pp.
Call No.
Mss. C I
Content
Photocopy of a typed autobiography of Selena Galt Ingram covers her childhood in Louisville, Ky. to circa 1900. She relates that after her father left Louisville to join the Confederate army, her mother, infant brother, and sisters went to live with Grandma Pope, who supported the Union. (p. 22) She recalled leaning out of her grandmother's window waving little Union flags as blue clad soldiers marched by and her sister Alex's "scorn" when she learned that she had cheered for "Yankees". She also vividly recalled the family's flight across the Ohio when the city was threatened by Confederate forces in the fall of 1862. (pp. 25-26)