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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Tiffany, John, 1842-1862 (Sc 3013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tiffany, John, 1842-1862 (Sc 3013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3013. Letter, 25 February 1862, of John Tiffany, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, to his parents. Camped near Nashville, Tennessee, he describes forced marches, including from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Nashville; rain; sickness among his fellow soldiers; and the difficulty of reaching Nashville or receiving mail due to bridge burning by the Confederates. Footsore from marching, he promises to “settle with Jeff for this if we ever catch him.”
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2990. Letters of James T. Parsons to his parents, written during his service with the 17th Ohio Infantry. He details his regiment’s arduous marches through Kentucky, especially Boyle and Pulaski counties, and remarks on bad roads, picket duty, and high prices charged by the sutler. He criticizes Kentucky soldiers as both braggarts and cowards. In December 1861, he speculates on the “great Battle to come” at Bowling Green but, in hospital at Nashville in August 1862, doubts the prospects for victory over the South. He …
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2992. Newspaper clippings, model press releases and other materials collected by Mary Leiper Moore, chairman of the publicity committee for a drive to recruit Warren County, Kentucky women for the Women’s Army Corps (WACs). Includes Moore’s letter to the commander of Louisville’s Bowman Field complaining of the Army’s poor planning of a publicity event held at Western Kentucky University on 12 November 1943.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
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Manning, Will Paul, Jr., 1928-2018 (Sc 2980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manning, Will Paul, Jr., 1928-2018 (Sc 2980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2980. Sketch by Will Paul Manning of stone chimneys constructed by Confederate forces during the Civil War, as he remembered seeing them on his family farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes explanatory notes, which also mention a “pest house” in the vicinity of the farm.
Morse, Alexander Porter, 1842-1921 (Sc 2967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morse, Alexander Porter, 1842-1921 (Sc 2967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2967. Letter, 9 December 1861, of A. P. Morse, serving with the First Louisiana Cavalry. Writing to his father from camp near Bowling Green, Kentucky, he describes troop numbers, movements and fortifications in the area. He also refers to an outbreak of measles and to dining with an officer involved in the Battle of Belmont near Columbus, Kentucky.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
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