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Western Kentucky University

2012

Civil War

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Civil War, 1861-1865 - Songs (Sc 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Songs (Sc 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 418. Holographic copy of the words of a Confederate song entitled “The Southern Wagon.” The song was composed during the Civil War as a parody of the song “Wait for the Wagon.” Author is unknown.


Frazer Family Legal Papers (Sc 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Frazer Family Legal Papers (Sc 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 397. Affidavit, 1815, Warren County, Kentucky, stating that George Frazer has three horses in his possession that are not his; Frazer’s will, 1828; Warren County deeds, 1819, 1841 (2); and Warren County survey, 1846. Also, letter relating to a disallowed Civil War claim of Thomas A. Frazer, 1894.


Goodman Family Papers (Sc 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Goodman Family Papers (Sc 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 401. Business papers of Revolutionary soldier, John Jacob Goodman, Sr., and Jr., and John I. Crisp, Monroe County, Kentucky. Deeds—Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1782, Monroe County, 1822-1873 (7); and Allen County, Kentucky, 1882; survey – Barren County, Kentucky, 1799; receipts – tax, Civil War, postmaster, etc., 1818-1863 (24); and miscellaneous papers.


Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2. Account (15 pp.) written by Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “A Week’s Outing in the Tennessee Mountains” describing a trip made after the Civil War. Also includes her obituary.


Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.


Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Mss 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Mss 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 387. Radio scripts, correspondence, research notes, and newspaper clippings of Kentucky Building director, Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore. Moore served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1931 to 1956. Also includes articles and speeches written by Moore.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table (Bylaws Revised), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table (Bylaws Revised), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 371. Correspondence, 1862-1863 (8), and pardon, 1864, of Union soldiers from the Kentucky counties of Hopkins and McLean; official program for Soldiers’ Reunion in Evansville, Indiana, 1887; and words of a Union song.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 364. Photocopies of Civil War letters (3), 1862, 1864, n.d. The letters were written from camps in Tennessee and Georgia by soldiers from Illinois. Includes letter relative to above letters, 1971.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.


Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.


Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.


Scott, George W. (Sc 347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Scott, George W. (Sc 347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 347. Photocopy and typescript of letters (2) written by George W. Scott, while serving in the Confederate Army in east Florida, to his wife Bettie in Georgia. He gives a statement of his affairs and instructs her how to react if the Union Army occupies the country.


Lane Collection (Sc 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Lane Collection (Sc 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 233. Papers of Joseph and Charles W. Lane and their family, Green County, Kentucky. Includes deeds from Barren and Green Counties, 1818-1832; Green County survey, 1866; Charles Lane’s Civil War discharge, 1864; Green County tax receipts, 1875 and 1882; an early plan of the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky; and miscellaneous letters from family and friends


Taylor, R. W. (Sc 237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Taylor, R. W. (Sc 237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 237. Letter written by R. W. Taylor, a medical student in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Caleb Bryant, a friend back home in Kentucky. Taylor reveals his political views concerning the Civil War and the enlistment of African American soldiers. Also includes undated note from donor.


Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Franklin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.


Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 338. Typescript of legal brief of Congressional Case No. 2310, which concerns Civil War claims of George Lehman of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Application was originally filed 18 August 1871 and resume of case was dated 30 June 1888.


Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 235. Photocopy of letter 11 April 1862 written by Jacob Weaver Davis, serving in the Union Army, to his brother, George, in McLean County, Kentucky, concerning the fighting at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Also, 1969 letter from the donor giving information pertaining to Davis and the 1862 letter.


Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 236. Photocopies and typescript of 2 March 1862 letter written by Mrs. Josephine (Wells) Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her father, Judge Robert William Wells of Missouri. She relates happenings in Bowling Green during its occupation and later evacuation by Confederate troops (18 September 1861-14 February 1862). Also includes information about Mrs. Covington and the Covington family. The original 2 March 1862 letter is housed at the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.