Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

ISOM T. VEST
POEM, CA 1905


Collection #
SC 2462


Table of Contents

User information
Historical sketch
Scope and Content note
Cataloguing information

Processed by
Charles Latham
28 December 1994


USER INFORMATION

 VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item

 COLLECTION DATE: ca. 1905

 PROVENANCE: Anna J. Richards, Westland MI, 5 August 1994

 RESTRICTIONS: None

 REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society

 ALTYERNATE FORMATS: None

 OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

 RELATED HOLDINGS: None

 ACCESSION NUMBER: 94.0892


HISTORICAL SKETCH

  No information was found in available sources on Isom T. Vest. References on the obverse of the clipping to Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, and to House whip James E. Watson of Indiana, indicate that the date is between 1905 and 1909. The observance takes place in a city where the cemetery is named Greenwood, and where a main intersection is at Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue.


SCOPE AND CONTENT

  This collection contains one item, an unidentified, undated clipping about a GAR observance. The main item of the clipping is a poem in honor of Civil War veterans, "Their March to Victory," by Isom T. Vest.


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

MAIN ENTRY: Vest, Isom T.

SUBJECT ENTRIES: Vest, Isom T.--Poetry

Grand Army of the Republic--Poetry

Veterans--United States--Poetry

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry

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