John A. Bushnell

On July 29, 1863, John A. Bushnell writes a letter to Eugenia Bronaugh in Calhoun, Missouri, informing her that he has arrived in St. Louis. He had planned to apply for exemption from military service during his trip to St. Louis, but has discovered that he must apply to the Board of Enrollment in his home district. He says he hopes to familiarize himself with news of the war, which has been difficult to do in Calhoun: “as now is a critical period of the times I can perhaps inform myself better here than at home.”

July 29, 1863

Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Surviving a Guerrilla War

John A. Bushnell

Cooper County, Missouri
Henry County, Missoui
Jackson County, Missouri
Lafayette County, Missouri
Saline County, Missouri

Letter

Missouri Valley Special Collections

Bushnell Papers, Box 1: Correspondence: Folder 9

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