Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh letters to Mrs. Annie Kimbrough Kavenaugh, 1864-1865
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh letters to Mrs. Annie Kimbrough Kavenaugh, 1864-1865
- Creator
- Kavanaugh, Hubbard Hinde, 1836-1892.
- Extent
- 1 reel of microfilm (15 ft.)
- Subjects
- Kavanaugh, Hubbard Hinde, 1836-1892.
- Kavanaugh, Annie Kimbrough.
- Confederate States of America.--Army.--Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 6th.
- Methodists--Kentucky.
- Clergy--Correspondence.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects
- Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Minister. Kavenaugh served with the sixth Kentucky Infantry Regiment of the First Kentucky or "Orphan" Brigade, which was composed of volunteers who chose to fight for the Confederacy.
- Scope and Content
- This reel of microfilm is a copy of letters sent by a Confederate chaplain, Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh, to his wife Annie. Kavanaugh, a Methodist minister, did not include many battle details in the letters, but he did write about his feelings against the war. In one letter he described his ministry to five men of the unit who were to be shot for desertion, despite being absent only three hours.
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