Peter Carnahan Notebook

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Identifier: MS C21

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Scope and Content Note

Bound volume of 105 pages, containing: three essays written by Carnahan in 1858, while a student at Cane Hill College, Boonsboro, Arkansas; and 12 "Letters to friends at home during fifteen months absence in Texas for the recovery of my health which failed me entirely and drove me from College in March, 1859."

Written between July 13, 1859 and April 25, 1860 and dated from Dallas County, Cedar Hill, Nolands River, and Ellis County, Texas, the letters describe stock cattle and land in Texas, social and economic conditions prevailing there, and the work of the Texas "cowhunter." The letters also pertain to personal and family matters, relating particularly to John Pyeatt and Cyrus Buchanan of Boonsboro.

Contents of the notebook include:

Love for the Union. Paper delivered before the Washington Literary Society, June 25, 1858. 27 pages

A gloomy day. 1858. 7 pages

Humane Law. 1858. 6 pages

"Letters to friends at home during fifteen months absence in Texas for the recovery of my health which failed me entirely and drove me from College in March 1859.":

July 13, 1859. Dear Broth. (S. N. Carnahan). Dallas Co., Texas. 2 pages
July 26, 1859. Dear Sister (Bettie Carnahan). Dallas Co., Texas. 2 pages
Aug. 31, 1859. Dear Sister. Dallas Co., Texas. 3 pages
Sept. 1, 1859. Dear Broth. Cedar Hill, Texas. 2 pages
Sept. 19, 1859. Dear Sister. Dallas, Texas. 2 pages
Sept. 23, 1859. Dear Broth. Cedar Hill, Texas. 6 pages. Information on stock-cattle and land; some social and economic aspects of the area; and a description of the Texas "cow-hunter" and his work.
Sept. 1859. Dear Parents. Dallas Co., Texas. 7 pages
Oct. 29, 1859. Dear Parents. Dallas Co., Texas. 7 pages
Oct. 29, 1859. Dear Broth. (Henry). Dallas Co., Texas. 4 pages
Jan. 8, 1860. Dear Parents. Nolands River. 3 pages
Feb. 20, 1860. Dear Sister. (Bettie). Ellis Co. 4 pages
Apr. 25, 1860. Dear Parents. Nolands River, Texas. 7 pages

Dates

1858-1860

Creator

Carnahan, Peter, 1838-1926 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

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Biographical Note

Rev. Peter Carnahan (1838-1926) was a Presbyterian minister and a Confederate veteran. Carnahan was born in Cane Hill, Arkansas, to Samuel and Mary Pyeatte Carnahan. Peter Carnahan served as a second lieutenant in Company B, Thirty-Fourth Arkansas Infantry during the U.S. Civil War. Following the war, he was ordained as a minister, and led congregations at churches in Pleasant Hill, Cincinnati, Bentonville, and Mount Vernon, Arkansas.