Name/Title
Letter to Fanny, from a Camp Near Blue Springs, East Tenn, 1864Entry/Object ID
2000.169.3Scope and Content
Acc. # 00.169.3
Subject Category: Civil War
Date: 1864
Object: Letter
Description: handwritten letter on tissue paper, dated March 4th, '64, location given 'Camp near Blue Springs, East Tenn'.
History: Letter written to 'Miss Fanny' by D.W. McDonnell. Letter found among effects of McDonell family, pioneers of Bay Farm Island. It appears McDonnell was fighting with the Confederate Army, 'confident the yankies will be defeated', 'although Johnson army acted very badly in the last battle this army acts bad enough, but they run for nothing before anybody is hurt', and 'General Bucknor is in Command of our division and Gen.l Gregg of the Brigade. We have lost Gen.l Wood and Gen.l Robertson out of our Division'.
Donor: Estate of Roberta McDonell
Date: August 12, 2000
