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Description
This handwritten memoir details George A. Ellsworth's skilled use of telegraphy during the Civil War to assist in Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's campaigns, Ellsworth's other intelligence-gathering activies, and Ellsworth's espianoge efforts in the North in effort to raise a rebellion there. The memoir is written on delicate onion skin paper which shows visible tears, creases, and stains. This copy of the memoir begins at page three and is numbered up to page 157.
Rights
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Transcription
The first two pages are missing from the actual item but the transcript PDF files capture the words from those pages. Refer to the Transcript for those missing pages.
Publication Date
1882
Time Period
1880-1889
Keywords
Civil War
Object Type
text
Format (original)
manuscript: 152 leaves
Format (digital)
Digital ID
MFM_MSS_8_Ellsworth-Memoir
Source
Mississippi State University Libraries, Special Collections Manuscripts Division, J. D. (James D.) Lynch Papers, Box 2, Folders 1-14
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Recommended Citation
James D. Lynch Papers, Box 2, Folder 1-14, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries
Ellsworth Memoir Transcript_starting p051.pdf (12074 kB)
Ellsworth Memoir Transcript_starting p103.pdf (13092 kB)