Battlefield Dispatches No.425

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The correspondence of the Civil War contains thousands of letters written by the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines to their families at home and the following letters were written by Assistant Surgeon A. J. Huntoon of the 5th Kansas Vol. cavalry to his wife Elizabeth who was at their former home in New Hampshire for most of the war. The original letters are housed in special archives of the Kansas Historical society in Topeka and they provide some previously unknown information concerning the Civil War in Bourbon County.

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