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Gunnon, John (Sc 948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Hagerman Family Papers (Sc 2693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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
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
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.
Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Wells, Thomas H., D. 1862 (Sc 2684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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
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
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.
Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2681. Charges and specifications preferred under a general court martial of William H. Herbert, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, for acts of disrespect to an officer, disobedience of orders, and mutiny committed at Fort College Hill near Bowling Green, Kentucky on 10 November 1863.
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, 1824-1863 (Sc 693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, 1824-1863 (Sc 693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 693. Letter of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, 17 August 1861, from First Brigade headquarters near Manassas, Virginia to Governor John Letcher of Virginia. Clarifying a recommendation of promotion he had desired for Major William Baylor, Jackson denies an intention to have Baylor replace the current incumbent in his old regiment as colonel.
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 681. Letter, 1 January 1864, of Union Army General Jeremiah Tilford Boyle, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, to Captain Alexander C. Semple, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding changes of command in the state.
Lawson, Marjorie C. (Barker), 1905-1991 (Sc 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lawson, Marjorie C. (Barker), 1905-1991 (Sc 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 673. Letter of Mrs. Marjorie (Barker) Lawson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to Julia Neal, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning her grandfather, John W. Barker, and a photostat of his account of his Civil War service in the Confederate Army.
Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2679. Military orders, reports and correspondence of or to Colonel Benjamin Covington Grider, commander of the Ninth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The reports and Grider’s letter to his father detail action during the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Includes a memorial tribute to Grider’s son, Judge Loving Grider, with some family information.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
United Spanish-American War Veterans Of Kentucky (Sc 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
United Spanish-American War Veterans Of Kentucky (Sc 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 911. Minutes of the second annual meeting of the United Spanish War Veterans of Kentucky held at Jefferson County Armory, Louisville, Kentucky, 5- 6 May 1925. Also, 1941 obituary of Frank L. Strange, Bowling Green, Kentucky, who was the commander of the 1925 veterans encampment.
Beller, William Young, 1834-1892 (Sc 889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beller, William Young, 1834-1892 (Sc 889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 889. Papers, 1881-1892 (8), of William Y. Beller, Butler County, Kentucky; his wife Rachel, 1893-1894 (3); and guardian of their son Alonzo, 1897 (1) concerning claims for a Civil War pension because of an illness contracted by Beller while serving in the war.
Mohr, James Franklin, 1840-1897 (Sc 2676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mohr, James Franklin, 1840-1897 (Sc 2676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2676. Letter, 24 December 1861, to his brother from James Mohr, encamped with the Union Army near the Green River fifteen miles from Mammoth Cave. He remarks on the rain and cold, the destruction by Confederates of a bridge over the river, a recent skirmish, his visit to a cave, and his expected arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky for the new year. Includes data on Mohr’s regiment, the Fifth U. S. Artillery, Battery H.
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) For Manuscripts Small Collection 665. Facsimile of letter written to Brigadier General Walter Husted Stevens by General Robert E. Lee regarding the reasons for and terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, and thanking him for his service.
Martin, Robert Green, 1839-1913 (Sc 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Robert Green, 1839-1913 (Sc 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 834. Photocopies of muster roll records, 1863-1865, Grand Army of the Republic reunion badge of Bailey Post Number 67, North Troy, Vermont, n.d., and photo with wife, of Robert Green Martin, Private, Company E, 52nd Regiment Kentucky Infantry.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 811), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 811), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 811. Civil War letter, 24 November 1861, to his sister Sallie from “Brother JSH,” while encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes his satisfaction with camp life and a sweetheart who is "for the south."
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 573. Two Confederate Civil War letters. Original and typescript of 18 December 1861 letter from “Foster,” Bowling Green, describing army conditions and reports of military actions; copy of original5 August 1863 letter from Martin N. Rogers, Camp Morton, Indianapolis, to his brother R.M. Rogers, Canton, Trigg County, relating conditions at the camp where he is a prisoner of war.
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.
Ray, Andrew W., 1830-1865 (Sc 799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ray, Andrew W., 1830-1865 (Sc 799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 799. Letter, 19 May 1862, to his wife from Ray, a Confederate soldier imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana. He expresses concern that his children be properly educated and socialized if he does not return from the war.
Camp Gilmore, Kentucky (Sc 802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Camp Gilmore, Kentucky (Sc 802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 802. Letter written by "Tom," Camp Gilmore, Frankfort, Kentucky, to his sister Sue in New England, discussing military life, the use of horses, and public opinion of Union troops in Frankfort and of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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.