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Title |
1986 letter from Robert W. Cox to Thelma Bingham about Jeffrey J. Cox |
Object Name |
Letter |
Catalog Number |
2020.FIC.0635 |
People |
Cox, Ethel Cox, Jeffrey J. Cox, Robert W. Cox, Samuel S. Wallace, John Aaron |
Date |
1986 |
Scope & Content |
November 8, 1986 handwritten letter from Robert W. Cox to Thelma Bingham at the Daviess County Museum in Washington, Indiana. In the letter Mr. Cox writes about one of his ancestors, Rev. John Wallace. He also sends a photocopy of a June 5, 1928 letter from Samuel S. Cox of Washington to Ethel Cox with a photocopy of a hymn book carried by Daviess County native Jeffery J. Cox during the Civil War. Jeffrey J. Cox mustered in with Company E, 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment on March 26, 1864. During the battle at Resaca, Georgia in May 1864, Cox was shot in the chest, but the bullet hit the hymn book he was carrying. Although the bullet did not pass entirely through the hymn book, the force of the bullet broke three of his ribs. According to a genealogy report about the Cox family prepared by Donald G. Dubois (See 2018.FIC.7017), Jeffrey J. Cox was born in 1849. If that is correct he was only 15 years old when he enlisted. |
Search Terms |
27th Indiana Infantry Regiment Military Veteran |