Title: Kate Thornberg Letter

Date/Date Range :   1864 December 10

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

In this letter to her sister Veronica Boyers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Nashville resident Kate Thornberg tells of freezing weather and a lack of food due to the influx of Union Soldiers and Confederate refugees and the Union's control of the Lexington and Nashville Railway Line.

Call number: MS-2908

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

Aquisition Information:

The Special Collections Library purchased this collection on June 9, 2006.

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], Kate Thornberg Letter, MS-2908. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of one folder

Catherine Boyers was born to Joseph and Mary Boyers in about 1837 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She lived in Nashville during the Civil War, likely with her husband. Her sister Veronica was the youngest of the family's nine children.

In this letter to her sister Veronica in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Kate Thornberg writes of the terrible lack of supplies caused by the Union's occupation of Nashville and the halting of the L&N train line. She mentions exorbitant prices for basic food items, seeing refugees wandering half clothed through the streets of Nashville, and her hopes of going home to Lancaster for Christmas.

• Nashville (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Railroads -- Tennessee -- History.