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Fox, Arthur Smith, 1920-1997 (Mss 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox, Arthur Smith, 1920-1997 (Mss 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 624. Letters, clippings, photographs, programs and other records relating to the life of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky native and Hopkins County, Kentucky teacher Arthur S. Fox, especially his service in World War II. Includes genealogical data.
Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 918. Photocopies of the Civil War enlistment, promotion, and discharge papers of Henry Peyton Bledsoe, Logan County, Kentucky. He was a member of Company E, 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
Jessee, William Mortikey, 1846-1931 (Sc 796), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jessee, William Mortikey, 1846-1931 (Sc 796), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 796. Photocopy of Union Army discharge certificate issued to William Mortikey Jessee, 10 January 1865. Jessee was born in Adair County, Kentucky but reared in the Metcalfe County community of Red Lick.
Mcclernand, John Alexander, 1812-1900 (Sc 800), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcclernand, John Alexander, 1812-1900 (Sc 800), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 800. Combat report printed on a field press submitted to Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant by Brigadier General John A. McClernand, Camp Cairo, Illinois. McClernand gives a detailed account of military action at Columbus and Belmont, Kentucky, 7 November 1861.
Hamby, Golden H., 1842-1922 (Sc 711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamby, Golden H., 1842-1922 (Sc 711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 711. Photocopies of Union Army discharge, 1865, and Civil War disability pension claim, 1891, of Golden H. Hamby, Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scans of items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 526. Samuel Clark, Bowling Green, Kentucky, was Captain of Co. B, 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish –American War. Papers include muster roll, roll call book, Clark’s discharge and pension papers, photo of Clark in uniform, Clark family genealogy, and miscellaneous items.
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 (Sc 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 (Sc 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 417. Papers relating to Henry Clark Corbin's commission as a captain in the U.S. Army.
Jones, John Rutherford, 1837-1907 (Sc 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, John Rutherford, 1837-1907 (Sc 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 171. Civil War discharge papers of John Rutherford Jones, Butler County, Kentucky, from Kentucky regiments of the Union Army, 1862, 1865. Includes promissory note, 1869, assigned to Jones.
Faught Family Papers (Sc 2382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Faught Family Papers (Sc 2382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2382. Correspondence, deeds, and sundry other items of the Faught family of Ohio County, Kentucky, chiefly Marion F. and Alice M. Faught. Includes Civil War military discharge for Bagges M. Faught, 17th Regiment of Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. Also includes a baby diary for Juanita Chloris Faught.
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 334. Correspondence, clippings and genealogical data relating to the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes military papers from the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Bowker, Lewis Gray, 1840-1863 (Sc 2349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowker, Lewis Gray, 1840-1863 (Sc 2349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2349. Letters (5) of Lewis Gray Bowker, written from Ohio and Bowling Green, Kentucky while serving in Company F of the 111th Infantry Regiment Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War. Includes biographical data, an image of Bowker, service records, and a letter sent to a family friend reporting on Bowker's death.
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2351. Certificate appointing James E. Rigsby as Corporal, Company C, 52nd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, 1 November 1863; and Rigsby's certificate of discharge from military service, 17 January 1865.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Courts-Martial And Courts Of Inquiry (Sc 2265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Courts-Martial And Courts Of Inquiry (Sc 2265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2265. Civil War General Orders no. 269 (printed) related to courts-martial of Kentuckians or those engaged in events that occurred in Kentucky.
Landers, Theodore R., 1903-1922 (Sc 2174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Landers, Theodore R., 1903-1922 (Sc 2174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2174. Bowling Green, Kentucky native Theodore R. Landers's honorable discharge from the U.S. Army 5 August 1921.
Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2080. Order granting a ten-day furlough to James Madison Simmons and his cousin Josephus Simmons, serving in the First Tennessee Cavalry, in order to return home to Sumner County, Tennessee, to obtain horses.