Thomas L. Pankey to Sallie S. Pankey, Thomas L. Pankey Papers

This is a letter of Corporal Thomas L. Pankey, at Shepherdsville, Kentucky to his wife, Sallie S. Pankey, in Illinois, dated November 22, 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 anticipates the worst outcome from the Emancipation Proclamation. According to Pankey, after the proclamation Southerners will fight harder to defend their property. (See page two. For more from the Thomas L. Pankey Papers please see 1118450 and 1118449. Transcription provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum and the White House Historical Association.)