From the Kentucky Historical Society online archives (Accession no. SC1069), a verbatim excerpt from a four-page letter from J. M. Douglass, Allen County, and presumably Scottsville, to his niece Mrs. Maggie Harris, April 11, 1865:
<"But two of the Gurrillers lost their Horses our Town is nearly Burnt up it caught or was fired It is not known which a way It is burned at any rate all but two Stores is burned the loss was estimated at 90,000 dollars you wrote you had seen a great deal of Trouble I Don’t Dispute that at all but if you was where we live you would see a great deal more for we don’t know when we lie down at night but what we will be killed by Gurrilles before the Sun rises next morning and you may guess from that we have Trouble enough to Distract us nearly This world is nothing but a world of Trouble. Mother is Glad to hear mr Harris a Christian man I think he is all right if he is a Baptist and a union man">
Unimaginable trouble they had. And, if Mr. Harris is a Baptist Union man, he's alright.
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