Topics

  • Poetry (1)
  • Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago (1)
  • Families -- Missouri -- Platte City (1)
  • Anonymous writings (1)

People

Places

  • United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 (1)

Decades

  • 1880s (1)

Archives

  • Chicago History Museum (1)
BMRC.CHM.png
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614

Results 1 to 1 of 1

Poetry (1)     x Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago (1)     x Families -- Missouri -- Platte City (1)     x Wentworth, John, 1815-1888. (1)     x United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 (1)     x 1880s (1)     x Chicago History Museum (1)     x clear facets

Letter to John Wentworth about Dr. Joseph Walker

Unsigned letter, on letterhead of Williams & Thompson (attorneys), gives a biography of Dr. Joseph Walker, an army surgeon who married a woman who owned a plantation with enslaved people located near Platte City, Missouri. Walker, who sympathized with the pro-slavery party, spent part of the Civil War years in Chicago but returned to Missouri and was killed by a