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later moved to Virginia and then Tennessee. He enlisted in the Confederate army in the fall of
1861, serving as orderly sergeant in Company C, Morgan’s Squadron of Kentucky cavalry.
While sick in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 1862, he was captured and sent to Camp Chase,
Ohio. He was exchanged in September 1862. He then joined Quirk’s Scouts of Morgan’s
command. In May 1863 Quirk’s Scouts reported to Colonel R.C. Morgan’s 14th Kentucky
Cavalry, and became Company B. In July 1863 he was captured again at Buffington, Ohio, and
was confined in several northern prisons until the close of the war. Following the war he moved
to Palmyra, Missouri. He died August 28, 1905.
Collection contains several detailed rosters of Quirk’s Scouts compiled by Peddicord;
Peddicord’s reminiscences of his service with Quirk’s Scouts, including an account of the
“Christmas Raid” in Kentucky in 1862; ten letters of Peddicord to his family while imprisoned at
Camp Chase, Ohio, the Western Penitentiary (Allegheny City, Pennsylvania), Point Lookout,
Maryland, and Fort Delaware; Peddicord’s notebook listing men of Morgan’s Cavalry
imprisoned at Columbus, Ohio; reminiscences of Peddicord’s sister Mrs. India P. Logan,
regarding her effort to get supplies to her brother in prison; letter of Columbus Peddicord,
Johnson’s Island Military Prison, to sister, August 28, 1864; three letters of R.M.J. Arnette, dated
1894 and 1901, to Peddicord, which include reminiscences of experiences with Morgan’s
Cavalry; scrapbook of postwar newspaper clippings regarding the war; three letters of George H.
Blakeslee, Eddyville, Nebraska, 1902, to Peddicord, which include reminiscences of Blakeslee’s
service with the 129th Illinois Infantry in middle Tennessee (also includes photograph of
Blakeslee); letter of J. Ogden Murray, Charlestown, West Virginia, 1902, to Peddicord, which
includes reminiscences of experiences in prisons at Point Lookout, Maryland, and Fort
Delaware; and postwar correspondence of Mrs. India P. Logan with the Missouri Historical
Society.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Kelion Franklin Peddicord Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2458
Peerless Hangers.
Circular, circa 1902-1911. 1 item
Circular for Peerless Hangers, for hanging suits and skirts, sold by Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co.,
St. Louis.
Cite as: Peerless Hangers Circular, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1833
Pence, William D.
Papers, 1892-1902. 2 folders
William D. Pence taught civil engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. He
compiled data and notes on the collapse of stand pipes (water towers) in Maryville, Missouri
(1893), Lexington, Missouri (1885), and St. Charles, Missouri (1889) for articles published in
Engineering News, 1895.
Collection contains correspondence between Pence and various engineers associated with the
design of stand pipes, officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture weather bureau,
handwritten and typed manuscripts describing the events, and photographs of stand pipes.
Cite as: William D. Pence Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2511
Penn Treaty Rolling Mills.