Title: Amos Guthrie Letter

Date/Date Range :   1864 March 19

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection houses a letter from Civil War soldier Amos Guthrie, stationed in Knoxville, Tennessee, to his father in New Rumley Township, Ohio. It consists primarily of invectives against Copperheads.

Call number: MS-2942

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

Aquisition Information:

The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library purchased this collection in June of 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], Amos Guthrie Letter, MS-2942. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of a single folder.

Amos Guthrie was born to Samuel and Catherine Guthrie in New Rumley Township, Ohio in about 1844. He had two known siblings: Sarah (born about 1848) and Mary (born about 1861). He enlisted in the United States Signal Corps on 22 December 1863 and served in the Southeastern United States during the Civil War. Guthrie died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on 4 August 1864.

In this letter, Amos Guthrie shares his political opinions with his father. He is mostly concerned with Copperheads in his hometown, saying "you say that Rumley township will stand a draft well it will be a good thing if only a certain kind would be taken that kind is a copperhead." Private Guthrie also promises to send his father a "paper of old Parson Brownlow's [a prominent Knoxville Whig] maufacture." Guthrie also asks his father about family matters, including a lawsuit in which his father was embroiled.

• Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877.
• Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Protest movements.
• Copperhead movement.