Headquarters 79TH Regiment, Camp Advance, Va. Co. K. September 21st, 1861. Dear Cousin Lou: Let me see — it is a long time since ...

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in July 29, 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., August 5. Attached to 3rd Brigade, McDowel...

WILLIAM H. ADKINS was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, November 21, 1835. He is the eldest of a family of ten children, six sons and four...