Letter from L. Budd Vimont to Unknown Recipient
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Title: Letter from L. Budd Vimont to Unknown Recipient
Description: Vimont, L. Budd, Private, Co. B, 6th Kentucky Cavalry, USA, to unknown recipient. Vimont describes his company's involvement in a skirmish in the Cumberland Gap that resulted in the deaths and wounding of several Confederates, and the capture of prisoners and materiel. He notes that mountaineers have volunteered to help fight against "these hounds of hell known better by the name of secessionists," who have abused the mountaineers terribly. Vimont died of pneumonia on 28 Oct 1864 at Chattanooga, TN.
Source: Civil War Collection
Date: 1862
Format: correspondence
Language: eng
Type: text
Identifier: 0010-001-b01-f02-i22
Rights: Contact Special Collections and Archives, Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University for reproductions, rights and permission to publish.
