Title: Jacob Vanscoy Letters

Date/Date Range :   1863

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

Jacob Vanscoy was an enlisted man in Company D, 12th Indiana Infantry. This collection is copies of letters written form Jacob Vanscoy at Grand Junction, Tennessee, to his father and mother.

Call number: MS-0291

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection is the property of the Hoskins Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Jacob Vanscoy Letters, MS-0291. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This is a single folder collection.

Jacob Vanscoy was an enlisted man in Company D, 12th Indiana Infantry. He was mortally wounded in battle near the East Tennessee Railroad. He was buried by his two brothers, Aaron and James, in what is now the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in Section D, grave number 12766.

Copies of letters written form Jacob Vanscoy at Grand Junction, Tennessee, to his father and mother.

• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States -- History -- Civil war, 1861-1865.