John T. Apperson correspondence 1862-1865

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John T. Apperson correspondence 1862-1865

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John T. Apperson was in the 1st Oregon Calvery during the Civil War. This collection consists of 35 letters to John T. Apperson between 1862 and 1865.

0.1 linear feet, 1 folder

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University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6375721

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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John Thomas Apperson, Oregon pioneer, was born in Kentucky in 1834 and the family moved to Missouri the following year. His family crossed the plains with a Mormon wagon train in 1847, but John's father died on the trip and the family moved to Portland. Apperson enlisted in the Rogue River War in 1856. He was a steamboat captain on the Willamette in 1859 and enlisted in the Oregon cavalry in 1861. He resumed steam boating after the war until 1872 and then and then settled on a farm near Oregon C...

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