Thomas Johnson letters, 1857-1868, 1861-1865 (bulk dates)
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Thomas Johnson letters, 1857-1868, 1861-1865 (bulk dates)
- Creator
- Johnsons, Thomas.
- Extent
- 1 reel of microfilm (partial)
- Subjects
- Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914.
- Hanson, Roger Weightman, 1827-1863.
- Hanson, Roger Weightman, Mrs.
- Johnsons, Thomas.
- Confederate States of America.--Army.--Kentucky Battalion, 2nd.
- Soldiers.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
- Arrangement
- No discernible arrangement.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Johnson served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army's Second Kentucky Battalion.
- Scope and Content
- This is a collection on microfilm of the letters of Thomas Johnson and others, written mainly during the Civil War. Among those of Johnson is a report he wrote of an engagement his unit fought in 1864. There are also some letters written by Roger W. Hanson, a Confederate Army colonel, to his wife, other letters she received, including one from General Simon Bolivar Buckner, and some of the letters she wrote to her husband.
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