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Knoxville when you look at the Battle

John Shrady Emails, 1862 Can get 17-1864 Oct 8 (MS.1436) Dr. John Shrady blogged the bulk of these types of characters (really obvious hands) so you can their spouse, Jeannie (Sammis) Shrady, as he is offering because a surgeon on the second Tennessee Infantry Department. Even when John Srady’s association with Knoxville try small and his awesome solution when you look at the regional hospitals was temporary, his characters reveal problems that prevailed following the urban area is actually restored so you’re able to Union control.

John Watkins inside Knoxville so you can Sarah Probert, 1863 September 18 (MS.1161) Within letter, dated September 18, 1863, out of John Watkins into the Knoxville, Tenn., to help you Sarah Probert in Pittsfield, Kansas, Watkins will bring a summary of all the he’s over just like the leaving Crab Orchard, Kentucky. for Knoxville. He writes on marching in order to Cumberland Gap which have Burnside therefore the Confederate surrender indeed there. Also, he complains concerning the shortage of mail service and describes the newest dilapidated county regarding Knoxville: “Knoxville have to have come some a location till the battle first started however it seems today as if it absolutely was this new earliest put worldwide and you will become permitted to rundown since that time it was mainly based.” (get a hold of digitized letter) **So it letter is just one product from the big John Watkins Files collection.

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