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Price, Sarah Frances "Sadie," 1849-1903 (Sc 2709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Price, Sarah Frances "Sadie," 1849-1903 (Sc 2709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2709. “Conscience Money,” by Sarah “Sadie” Price, a story about the recovery of money belonging to the narrator’s father, a Union sympathizer, and hidden while he was a refugee from Kentucky during the Civil War. Price adds a postscript to an editor, calling it an “o’er true tale” that may be more appropriate for a psychological journal. Copied from unpublished notes in Sadie F. Price’s scrapbook at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Missouri.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military Life (Sc 1029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military Life (Sc 1029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1029. Undated letter written by "Tom," from Headquarters of the 1st Regiment, to his father. He discusses the conditions and lack of food within the camp. The location of the camp is unknown.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2705. Blank oath of allegiance and United States bond, to be sworn by residents of Warren County, Kentucky.


Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of contents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2704. Calendar of events, historic walking tour information, and Pioneer Cemetery Lantern Tour scripts and supporting research, all relating to Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on Civil War-era burials in Pioneer Cemetery.


Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan of transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1017. Civil War letter written by J. R. DuMarey?, Lexington, Kentucky, to his father in Delta (Fulton County, Ohio), relating camp news. Mentions an owner reclaiming his enslaved African American who had been working for one of the army captains.


Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2703. Circuit judge’s order, affidavit and statement relating to applications for discharge or exemption from military service in the U. S. Army. An underaged apprentice is discharged for enlisting without the consent of his master, one of three sons seeks exemption to care for aged parents, and an unnamed officer seeks a discharge due to poor health.


J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2702. Blank agreements for the services of J.W. Cardwell & Company to procure contracts and make out claims of sundry persons for slaves in the military service of the United States. Includes the terms of compensation. One agreement is undated; the other is dated 1865 and references claims to be made in Warren County, Kentucky.


Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 455. Correspondence, accounts, land surveys, and miscellaneous business and legal papers of Orlando C. Bowles, a Civil War veteran, lawyer, farmer, and timber trader of Pike County, Kentucky. Includes some material relating to the Cecil family of Floyd and Pike counties.


Barter, Edwin Henry Steele, D. 1873 (Sc 2698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Barter, Edwin Henry Steele, D. 1873 (Sc 2698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2698. Letter, 8 August 1865, of Edwin Barter to Benjamin Covington Grider. Writing from Madras Presidency, a province of British India, Barter provides his recollections of the handling by Grider and others of funds used to pay bounties to soldiers enlisting in the 9th Kentucky Regiment during the Civil War. He also describes his business activities and offers his opinions of the local people, conditions in India, and of British attitudes toward residing there.


Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1011. General Order Number 32, 11 November 1861, issued at Paducah, Kentucky, by Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith. Order contains reports of the troops under the command of Brigadier General Eleazer Arthur Paine that had recently marched to Milburn, Kentucky. They are described as a “mere armed mob” and reprimanded for looting. Includes data about Smith.


Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 1007. Family letters of the Fox and Walthall families, chiefly of Mildred P. (Walthall), Joseph, Rachel M. and William S. Fox of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The collection includes family correspondence, Civil War letters, 1861-1862 (34), and courtship letters.


Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.


Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 936. Letters kept by Henry Lewis Underwood, 1848-1925, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native, which include an 1800 letter of Henry Clay written to Robert Craddock; an 1875 letter of Jefferson Davis addressed to Underwood; an 1894 letter of Theodore Roosevelt addressed to C.R. Breckinridge; letters, 1885 (15), pertaining to a National Soldiers Reunion and Encampment; and miscellaneous items.


Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 939. Letter, 28 November 1861, written by William T. Clark, Camp Nolin, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his aunt, Elisabeth Thompson, East Nottingham, Pennsylvania. He describes the setting up and moving out of a camp; estimates there are about 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the area; and mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s presence in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 930. Notes related to the early history of Barren County, Kentucky, and the establishment of the county seat, Glasgow. Also, copy of the record of the organizational meeting of Barren County’s Confederate Aid Society, 8 June 1872. Includes a list of the veterans and citizens who joined that day.


Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 941. Civil War letters (5), by Tennessee Confederate Jefferson Dean, to his wife, Sophia. His regiment was stationed in southeastern Kentucky, then Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He describes his company’s activities in preparation for the Battle of Mill Springs and with Felix Zollicoffer’s forces at Johnson’s Island, where he died. Other items include war records and photographs concerning Dean and Johnson’s Island cemetery.


Gunnon, John (Sc 948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Gunnon, John (Sc 948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 948. Pension certificate issued to John Gunnon, a private in Company F, 34th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers. Dated 28 January 1883, the certificate awards $4.00 per month to Gunnon commencing on 28 March 1865, and $6.00 per month from 22 March 1882, the pension being “for piles.”


Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Sc 952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Sc 952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 952. Photocopy of script (31 p.) used from radio program “Our America” broadcast on WLW Cincinnati about John Hunt Morgan. Also original letter regarding script.


Hagerman Family Papers (Sc 2693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Hagerman Family Papers (Sc 2693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2693. Enlistment papers signed by Lee Hagerman and Perry Hagerman at Bowling Green, Kentucky on 19 June 1864 for three years’ service in the United States Colored Volunteers. The papers were prepared by Captain A. G. Hobson and furnished to Mrs. Ruth Hagerman as owner of the services of the recruits.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 956. Letters, 1861-1864 (3), written by three soldiers from Indiana. Two are stationed in Virginia and describe recent battles and camp life. The letter writer from 1864 speculates that the war is almost over and describes Raleigh, North Carolina, and military affairs there.


King, Stephen Lynn, B. 1954 (Mss 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

King, Stephen Lynn, B. 1954 (Mss 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 110. Correspondence, 1994-1997 (31); lists of Confederate soldiers in Bowling Green, Kentucky; and research materials, 1861-1997 (46); used by King in writing his book Confederate Dead at Bowling Green, Kentucky and Vicinity, 1997.


Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of letter (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2690. Letter, 22 March 1866, to a newspaper editor from Captain William Schenck, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky with the 119th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. He denies the editor’s claim that an outbreak of smallpox in the town was attributable to “careless Negro soldiers” and describes the measures taken to control the disease among his troops.


Skiles, Henry Hamilton, 1832-1889 (Sc 2688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Skiles, Henry Hamilton, 1832-1889 (Sc 2688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2688. Correspondence and other professional papers of Henry Hamilton Skiles, an attorney of Warren County, Kentucky, relating mainly to Civil War claims, courts martial, and applications for release of prisoners of war. Other letters relate to an impressment of a slave to work on the fortifications at Bowling Green, Kentucky, a slave’s travel in Kentucky with a Michigan regiment, and compensation claims for the loss of slaves in Warren County, Kentucky.


Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 968. Partial letter, 1862, written by Abyram P. Staats, a private in the 74th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, while stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He recounts how he shot his thumb off and the miseries of camp life. Discharge certificate, 1863, and photo included.


Westray, Wilbur Morgan, Sr., 1921-2000 (Sc 965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Westray, Wilbur Morgan, Sr., 1921-2000 (Sc 965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 965. Paper (22 p.) titled “My Early Life [,] 1921-1939” written by Wilbur Morgan Westray, Sr. Westray recounts life as he experienced it growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes associated genealogical data.


Wells, Thomas H., D. 1862 (Sc 2684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Wells, Thomas H., D. 1862 (Sc 2684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text transcriptions (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2684. Letters of Thomas H. Wells, 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, to his sister Eliza J. Wells in Mogadore, Ohio. He writes from Camp Wickliffe in Larue County, Kentucky, of changes in military structure, of the local landscape, and of being hospitalized with the mumps. He also writes from Louisville, Kentucky, of his clerical work at headquarters, his patriotism, and the possibility of a military draft in Ohio.


Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

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.


Giesy, Henry Hensel, 1836-1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Giesy, Henry Hensel, 1836-1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 975. Civil War letters, 1862-1863 (3), written by Henry H. Giesy of Company F, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, discussing military actions, especially battles at Shiloh, Tennessee and in the Vicksburg, Mississippi area, during the Civil War. Giesy was a brigadier general for the Union. Includes related research data.


Bruce, Horatio Washington, 1830-1903 (Sc 2685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bruce, Horatio Washington, 1830-1903 (Sc 2685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2685. Handbill of H. W. Bruce announcing his candidacy to represent the 7th Congressional District of Kentucky in the Congress of the Confederate States, and outlining his objectives if elected. Includes an endorsement from the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier, 2 January 1862.


Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 999. Recollections of Elizabeth Gaines about her life in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. She discusses residents, schools, and businesses. Gaines includes a detailed account of Civil War incidents in Bowling Green that she recalls from her childhood.