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Jones, Thomas Laurens, 1819-1887 (Sc 3080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Thomas Laurens, 1819-1887 (Sc 3080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3080. Papers of Thomas L. Jones of Campbell County, Kentucky, a state representative and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Letters to him praise two of his speeches concerning the U.S. Centennial and the 1876 amnesty bill restoring citizenship to ex-Confederates. Fellow Democratic Party members write with invitations to various functions, to encourage him in seeking the gubernatorial nomination, and to discuss political matters. Friend Thomas B. Chaplin relates his fortunes in South Carolina during and after the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below). Includes a few letters and telegrams to wife …
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Civil War Indictments (Mss 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Civil War Indictments (Mss 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 412. Criminal and Equity Court, and Circuit Court records of Warren County, Kentucky relating to the prosecution of Confederate soldiers and sympathizers for conspiracy, treason, theft and property destruction in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War.
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 379. Personal and family correspondence, papers, and genealogical research materials of Nora (Young) Ferguson, a native of Richardsville, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes original land, estate and guardianship records, and other early county records which Mrs. Ferguson was permitted to remove from the Warren County Courthouse for microfilming prior to its renovation in 1957. Click on "Additional Files" below to see receipts from the Warren County "Poor House."
Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 402. Will, 1798; slavery bill of sale, 1810; militia commission, 1820; letters concerning Slaughter estate settlement, 1835-1843 (9); Mexican War claim, 1849; letters of recommendations for judicial appointments, 1853-1879 (7); Civil War notes and letters, 1861-1864 (4); and miscellaneous items. Selected items have been typescripted.
De Roode, Eugenia (Sc 1909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
De Roode, Eugenia (Sc 1909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1909. Letter, 6 June 1862, from Eugenia De Roode, Nashville, Tennessee to James Overstreet, Hanly (Jessamine County) Kentucky. Formerly a music teacher at "Misses Jacksons' Seminary" in Lexington, Kentucky, De Roode writes of her negative views of Confederates, particularly those from Kentucky and Tennessee. She also makes cogent remarks about the work of Andrew Johnson, Tennessee's military governor.
Ua68/8/2 John Rodes Oral History, Wku Oral History Committee
Ua68/8/2 John Rodes Oral History, Wku Oral History Committee
WKU Archives Records
Oral history interview of John Rodes by unidentified interviewer. Rodes discusses Bowling Green, Kentucky history from its founding, the Civil War and his political career.
The Constitutional Union Party In Kentucky, John Lawrence Kelly
The Constitutional Union Party In Kentucky, John Lawrence Kelly
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
During the period immediately preceding the Civil War, there arose a new political party, the Constitutional Union party. While nearly every other phase of the era around the Civil War has been covered exhaustively, comparatively, very little has been written about the Union movement and its attempt to prevent the war. What has been written about the Union party deals primarily with the movement at the national level. It is the goal of this author to present a history of the Union movement in Kentucky and the part played in the national party by Kentuckians.
Ua37/37 The Year 1861 In Brief Review Of American Civil War With Emphasis On Kentucky, Arndt Stickles
Ua37/37 The Year 1861 In Brief Review Of American Civil War With Emphasis On Kentucky, Arndt Stickles
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Article regarding Civil War events occurring in Kentucky during 1861.
Tennessee During Secession & Reconstruction, Edward Taylor
Tennessee During Secession & Reconstruction, Edward Taylor
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The present work is intended as a survey of events and conditions in Tennessee during the decade from 1860 to 1870 when the entire nation was torn by sectional strife, racial antagonism, and economic and social disorder. The writer can make no pretension of having made a comprehensive or exhaustive study of the sources. That would involve a paper far beyond the scope of the present study. At best I have only scratched the surface; merely opened avenues for future study.