Kelion Franklin Peddicord of Quirk's Scouts, Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A.

Chapter 4: PART II BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF KELION FRANKLIN PEDDICORD AS WRITTEN IN HIS “JOURNAL” AND IN LETTERS FROM MILITARY PRISONS, AND AS JOTTED DOWN BY HIM DURING A BUSY LIFE AFTER THE WAR

By India W. P. Logan

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A multi-part family memoir begins with a genealogical outline of the Peddicord family and proceeds to a close biographical sketch and first-person journal of Kelion Franklin Peddicord. It chronicles his youth, service with Morgan’s Kentucky Cavalry and Quirk’s Scouts, experiences in military prisons, and postwar life, interspersed with letters, reminiscences about siblings and other relatives, portrait engravings, and documentary material that together illuminate personal character, wartime hardship, and family memory.

PART II
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF KELION FRANKLIN PEDDICORD AS WRITTEN IN HIS “JOURNAL” AND IN LETTERS FROM MILITARY PRISONS, AND AS JOTTED DOWN BY HIM DURING A BUSY LIFE AFTER THE WAR