Stone family papers, 1822-1930.

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Stone family. Stone family papers, 1822-1930.

Stone family papers, 1822-1930.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41205376

This collection contains papers of the Stone family of Indiana and Kentucky, and generally concerns the Civil War. The collection contains correspondence, military documents, a diary, and two photographs. Valentine's papers include a diary he kept in 1865 and 1866 while stationed at Fort Monroe, Virginia; his military orders to Fort Jefferson; letters by others at the post about the deaths of Valentine and his wife, Julia, in the epidemic; and information about monuments the Stone family placed at their graves in Pennsylvania. There is also an undated photograph of an unidentified man who possibly is Valentine Stone in the period just before the war. Henry's papers largely consist of the detailed letters he wrote home, expressing his Southern sympathies; describing the movements of Morgan's command, including his Northern raids; telling of his capture and confinement in Camps Morton and Douglas; his escape and subsequent journey to Canada; and settling down in Kentucky after the war. There is also a photograph of Henry and a comrade, Will Thomas, taken at Camp Douglas in 1863. A typescript of a an 1865 Civil War diary kept by Henry Stone is also present. Other family members represented in the collection are James Hardage Lane; Samuel Stone, father of Valentine and Henry and also a one-time member of the Kentucky legislature; Henry Smith Lane, the Stones' maternal uncle who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Indiana; and cousins Walker Bourne and his sons of Alabama. Letters by all the above mentioned discuss politics, the war, and family news. There are also three letters written by the famous British soldier of fortune and one-time adjutant to Morgan, George St. Leger Grenfell, to Henry Stone. Grenfell was imprisoned at Fort Jefferson at the time of the yellow fever epidemic that killed Valentine Stone and he described the events that took place during that epidemic.

.5 cubic ft.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library