Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed Thos. F. Drayton, Columbus, to Lt. Wm. Von Phul, Houston. Can you buy or obtain for me by requisition another six shooter from the ordnance department to supply the one I left to have a new barrel made for it? (Gift of John Richardson Thomas and Henry von Phul Thomas, January 1954), 1864 June 11
Item — Box: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains family correspondence, mainly letters of Anna Maria von Phul, Sarah von Phul (Jordan) Mason, and Graff von Phul to Henry von Phul in St. Louis. The letters mention family news, Anna Maria von Phul’s artwork, soldiers in Lexington just prior to the War of 1812, Henry's business affairs, an 1819 flooding in St. Louis from Chouteau's Pond when the dam gave way, the murder of Elijah Lovejoy, and the Civil War.
The collection also...
Dates:
1864 June 11