Russellville Committee on Safety

Creation Date

c1861

Dissolution Date

c1862

Entity Type

Organization

Committee of citizens organized in Russellville, Kentucky, during the Confederate occupation c1861. Members: Edward Stevenson, James McCallen, John B. Peyton, [Unknown] Evans, and William Clark.

KYR-0001-029-0065. KYR-0001-027-0038. M. B. Morton and J. B. Peyton to J. J. Crittenden, 10 July 1862, Case Files of Investigations by Levi C. Turner and Lafayette C. Baker, 1861-1865, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M797, Roll 0018, Case File #550, accessed via Fold3.com. Edward Stevenson to Joseph Holt, July 1862, Case Files of Investigations by Levi C. Turner and Lafayette C. Baker, 1861-1865, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M797, Roll 0018, Case File #550, accessed via Fold3.com. Christina Adkins, “’More Dangerous than Open Enemies’: Political Detentions in the Civil War Part Three,” Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, http://civilwargovernors.org/political-detentions-part-three (accessed February 2, 2019).

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