Collection Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Cataloging Information
Processed
by:
Ellen Swain
15 July 1992
Updated
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
Indianapolis, IN
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder
COLLECTION DATE: 1863
PROVENANCE: Mrs. F. Parson, Logansport, IN, February, 1962
RESTRICTIONS: None
COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMAT: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: See card catalog under United States History - Civil War, 1861-1865 and Indiana History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1962.0202
Jacob M. Abbott, son of George and Emaline Abbott, was born in Fitchville, Huron County, Ohio on May 22, 1843. A member of Company D One Hundred First Ohio Infantry, Abbott died in a Nashville, Tennessee hospital on January 24, 1863.
Lou S. S. McNutt was a nurse (or volunteer) at Hospital No. 3, Nashville, Tennessee. She and her husband, a Methodist minister, cared for Abbott shortly before his death.
Source:
Material from collection.
The collection contains a letter written by Lou S.S. McNutt to Emaline Abbott informing her of her son's death. Written February 1, 1863, the letter is an account of Abbott's last days in the hospital and a reassurance of his new found salvation.
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