Guide to the Luther K. Casey letter MSS.1768
Casey, Luther K.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
June 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Luther K. Casey letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.1768
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (1 letter and envelope)
- Dates:
1865 October 16
- Abstract:
Letter from Luther K. Casey, Union soldier in Anderson Court House, South Carolina, to his uncle W. D. Barrell in Turner, Maine, 16 October 1865. Casey discusses the health of his fellow soldiers, an incident in which three of his comrades were murdered, and denounces South Carolina as "the hardest Secesh hole in the whole south."
- creator
Casey, Luther K.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of one letter from Luther K. Casey, Union soldier in Anderson Court House, South Carolina, to his uncle, W. D. Barrell, in Turner, Maine, 16 October 1865. Casey discusses the health of his fellow soldiers (evidently a part of the 1st Maine Battalion), an incident in which three of his comrades were murdered, and denounces South Carolina as "the hardest Secesh hole in the whole south."
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2006
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Luther K. Casey letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2005
Biographical/Historical note
Union Civil War soldier, 1865.
Source(s)
Barrell, W.D. -- Correspondence
Casey, Luther K. -- Correspondence
United States . Army. Maine Infantry Battalion, 1st (1865-1866). (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
United States. Army. (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
Letters (rbgenr)
Soldiers |z South Carolina |v Correspondence (lcsh)
South Carolina |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |v Personal narratives (lcsh)
Luther K. Casey Box 6533 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22204