Guide to the Lucius D. Whaley letter MSS.1769
Whaley, Lucius D.
- 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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Lucius D. Whaley letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.1769
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (1 letter and envelope)
- Dates:
1862 November 23
- Abstract:
Letter from Lucius D. Whaley, wounded Union Civil War soldier at Frankfurt, Kentucky, to his sister Mary M. Whaley of East Cleveland, Ohio, 23 November 1862.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of one letter from Lucius D. Whaley at Frankfort, Kentucky, to his sister Mary M. Whaley of East Cleveland, Ohio, 23 November 1862. The letter is written on stationery with an engraving illustrating "Desperate Bayonet Charge at the Battle of Winchester" [today labeled the First Battle of Kernstown], March 23 1862. The accompanying envelope is also illustrated with a scene depicting a soldier bidding his wife or girlfriend farewell, the words "The Girl I Left Behind Me" beneath it, and below them a stanza from an unattributed poem. Whaley was evidently a convalescing soldier about to be discharged and sent home, and that subject occupies the bulk of his letter.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2006
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Lucius D. Whaley 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, 1862.
Letter Box 6533 Folder 15
Letter from Lucius D. Whaley, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Mary M. Whaley, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20785