This is a letter of Corporal Thomas L. Pankey, at Shepherdsville, Kentucky to his wife, Sallie S. Pankey, in Illinois, dated November 28, 1862. Pankey served in the U.S. Army, a member of the 91st Illinois Infantry Regiment. He died in Louisiana in 1864. In the letter Pankey describes the Union war effort in positive terms and places the Emancipation Proclamation alongside military pressure. (See top half of page two. For more from the Thomas L. Pankey Papers please see 1118450 and 1118448. Transcription provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum and the White House Historical Association.)
This is a letter of Corporal Thomas L. Pankey, at Shepherdsville, Kentucky to his wife, Sallie S. Pankey, in Illinois, dated November 28, 1862. Pankey served in the U.S. Army, a member of the 91st Illinois Infantry Regiment. He died in Louisiana in 1864. In the letter Pankey describes the Union war effort in positive terms and places the Emancipation Proclamation alongside military pressure. (See top half of page two. For more from the Thomas L. Pankey Papers please see 1118450 and 1118448. Transcription provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum and the White House Historical Association.)
