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Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts of letters (attached as additional files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2101. Two letters from John McKee, serving with the 37th Indiana Infantry, to his wife Sarah McKee in Hamilton, Ohio. He writes of his encampments near Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, his reading, nearby guerrilla activity involving John Hunt Morgan, difficulties with mail, and the general condition of the countryside.
Taylor, John Burnam (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, John Burnam (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2104. Letter, 8 May 1981, from John Burnam Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to Lowell H. Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky providing information related to members of the Burnam family.
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
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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.
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.
Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1929. Correspondence, poems, song lyrics, recipes, accounts, clippings, and miscellaneous records relating to the Taylor family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes letters of a Kentucky soldier writing of battle in east Tennessee during the Civil War, 1864 (Click on "Additional Files" for scans).
Williams, Freeman (Sc 2053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Freeman (Sc 2053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2053. Letter, 10 January 1862, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky by Freeman Williams, a Confederate soldier, to his brother Thomas in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He briefly sends his regards to family and asks to be sent letters.
Tichenor, Doris Ann (Annis), 1931-2011 (Sc 2050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tichenor, Doris Ann (Annis), 1931-2011 (Sc 2050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2050. Paper (5 p.) by Tichenor titled "A Brief History of Borah's Ferry" (Butler County, Kentucky). Includes bibliography and photocopy of a 1908 photograph of buildings in Borah's Ferry vicinity.
Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2048. Letter from Frank M. Phelps, serving in the 10th Wisconsin Infantry, to his uncle in Wisconsin. He describes his company's march to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the sight of dead horses, the shelling of Bowling Green, the destruction he found there, and the supplies the Confederates left behind.
Van Valin Family (Sc 2043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Van Valin Family (Sc 2043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2043. Reminiscence about the Civil War Wilderness Campaign written by Waldo C. Van Valin, 1864? (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan); also includes articles and correspondence related to ethnological work done in Alaska, 1912-1919, by William B. Van Valin.
Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 273. Genealogical research material compiled by Mrs. Sumpter and her husband, Ward Cullin Sumpter. The focus of the collection is on their ancestral families, particularly the Morgan, Moss, Sumpter and Ward families.
Field, Robert Willis, B. 1841? (Sc 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Field, Robert Willis, B. 1841? (Sc 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2016. Discharge and pension papers of Robert Willis Field, a native of Shelby County, Kentucky who served in several units during the Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Perryville. Includes correspondence to and from his attorneys.
Bratcher, John W., 1834-1920 (Sc 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bratcher, John W., 1834-1920 (Sc 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2012. Discharge and pension papers for John W. Bratcher, who served in Company H, 35th Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Infantry during the Civil War.
Steele, Henry N., 1833-1865 (Sc 2309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steele, Henry N., 1833-1865 (Sc 2309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2309. Diary kept by Confederate Henry N. Steele, a second lieutenant serving in the Warren Light Artillery, Warren County, Mississippi, from 17 August 1861 to 31 December 1861. Brief entries discuss troop movements and skirmishes in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and especially southcentral Kentucky. He makes more in-depth comments about a skirmish at Woodsonville, Hart County, Kentucky on 17 December 1861.
Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, both personal and professional, as well as research material related to books and articles published by Stickles, a native of Indiana and a history professor at Western Kentucky University from 1908 to 1954. His most popular book was "Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight."
Hawes Family Papers (Sc 2276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hawes Family Papers (Sc 2276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2276. Materials relating to the Hawes family of Daviess County, Kentucky. Includes wills, Bible and cemetery records, and biographical data. Also includes a speech by Richard Hawes, Confederate Governor of Kentucky, and recollections of Maria (Southgate) Hawes, who followed her husband, James Morrison Hawes, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas during his service in the Confederate Army (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Donaldson, Gary - Collector (Sc 2266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donaldson, Gary - Collector (Sc 2266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2266. Research material consisting chiefly of communications to General Braxton Bragg regarding military operations in Kentucky, September 1862 to April 1863.
Smith, Edmond, 1843?-1863 (Sc 1915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Edmond, 1843?-1863 (Sc 1915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1915. Letter from Edmond Smith, serving with the 4th Indiana Artillery, to "Annie" describing his regiment's reception in Louisville, Kentucky and his reaction to negative comments besmirching his character. Written on letterhead with the word "UNION!" printed in red and blue ink along with an eagle holding a shield decorated with stars and stripes.
De Roode, Eugenia (Sc 1909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
De Roode, Eugenia (Sc 1909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 121. Correspondence, legal papers, and news clippings about the Hobsons, a prominent family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The correspondence and reminiscences of Civil War veteran William E. Hobson; a diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Van Meter during the evacuation of Bowling Green, 1861; and correspondence of George Anna (Hobson) Duncan, an award winning trapshooter, are of particular significance. Also includes genealogical information about the Hobson and related families.
Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1862. Information related to the Bailey family of Logan County, Kentucky. Chiefly letters to Margaret Bailey, 1865, from her husband J.M. Bailey, U.S. consul in Glasgow, Scotland, and letters [1869?]-1896 from two friends in Great Britain.
Collins, Mary Jane (Simonin), 1842-1903 (Sc 1878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Collins, Mary Jane (Simonin), 1842-1903 (Sc 1878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1878. Letter, 4 April 1864, from Mary Collins, Newport, Kentucky, to her husband John Collins, then serving in the military during the Civil War. She describes the tiresome duties of caring for several ill members of her household.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns, Battles, Military Actions - Tebbs Bend, 1863 (Sc 1872), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns, Battles, Military Actions - Tebbs Bend, 1863 (Sc 1872), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1872. Letters related to the Battle of Tebbs Bend, Kentucky from two Union army participants; correspondence between Betty Mitchell Gorin and Lowell H. Harrison.
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 127. Letters of Joseph Holt written to family members about family matters, 1826, 1881 (2); letters concerning these early letters, 1961 (3); and typed copy of Holt's speech delivered to Kentucky troops under General Rosseau at Camp "Jo Holt" in Indiana, 31 July 1861.
Hobson Family Papers (Sc 1859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson Family Papers (Sc 1859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1859. Correspondence and documents related to the Union army service of William E. Hobson during the Civil War, including requests for leaves of absence (one to return to his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky to assist in prosecuting local “rebel scoundrels”), recommendations for his promotion to Brigadier General, and his military discharge certificate; deeds related to land owned by William’s great-uncle Jonathan Hobson; will of Jonathan Hobson freeing his slaves; and receipts for the purchase of materials for the construction of William’s father Atwood G. Hobson’s home, …
Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1858. Information, chiefly published items, related to Hamilton's role in the escape of Union prisoners from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia in 1864. Also, details concerning his 1895 death.
Buell, Don Carlos, 1818-1898 (Sc 1866), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buell, Don Carlos, 1818-1898 (Sc 1866), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1866. Letter, 9 May 1892, from Don Carlos Buell, Airdrie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky to Fitz-John Porter related to advance sheets of A.K. McClure's forthcoming book sent to Buell by Porter.
Blackburn, John W., 1914-1985 (Sc 1868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blackburn, John W., 1914-1985 (Sc 1868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1868. Paper: "Butler County Boys in the Civil War" written by John W. Blackburn, which focuses on the Butler County, Kentucky members of the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Union) and the engagements in which they fought.
Riggs, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1930 (Sc 1857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riggs, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1930 (Sc 1857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1857. Memoir written by Benjamin Franklin Riggs, with particular emphasis on his Civil War service in Arkansas with Confederate forces. Also, a copy of his surrender document, 7 June 1865.
Parker, Elvis Brooks, 1841-1862 (Sc 1853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker, Elvis Brooks, 1841-1862 (Sc 1853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of all material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1853. Information gathered by an unnamed genealogist related to Elvis Brooks Parker's Civil War service. Parker, from Tennessee, was apparently court-martialed and shot for deserting the Confederate army and fighting for the Union army. His execution occurred after the Battle of Hartsville, Tennessee.
Lyon-O'Hara Papers (Sc 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lyon-O'Hara Papers (Sc 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 107. Business and personal letters of the Lyon and O'Hara families of Louisville and Eddyville, Kentucky, which chiefly concern army life (Union and Confederate), tobacco sales, and family matters. James O'Hara and Hylan B. Lyon are the principal correspondents.