Do They Miss Me at Home?: The Civil War Letters of William McKnight, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry

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 ix Illustrations Figures Envelopes addressed to Samaria McKnight xi Envelopes addressed to Samaria McKnight and Lieutenant William McKnight xii William McKnight 2 Samaria McKnight 3 Martin Entsminger 7 Addison Braley 7 Alexander Braley 7 The Braley sisters 7 William McKnight’s original commission papers 13 William McKnight’s poem to Samaria Braley, April 4, 1852 15 William McKnight’s letter to Samaria, November 14, 1862 21 William McKnight’s letter to Samaria, November 18, 1862 22 Civil War stationery symbol 23 William McKnight’s letter to Samaria, November 25, 1862 24 Lettie McKnight 41 Leila McKnight 41 Mary Lucy McKnight 41 Thomas McKnight 83 Martha and Myrtha McKnight 111 Mattie (Martha) McKnight 111 Letter from William to Samaria written on paper from railroad ledger book 131 Tombstone receipt for Levi Little and Warren Coulter of the 7th OVC 133 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. illustrations  x Private William Lemon Johnson 141 Colonel Santmyer’s orders used by McKnight for a letter to Samaria 149 Lock of William McKnight’s hair sent to Samaria 185 Samaria and the McKnight girls 192 Flood of Langsville, Ohio, 1908 194 Maps Meigs County, Ohio 12 Important Civil War locations in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia 38 Important Civil War locations in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee 123 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...