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Green River Research Collection (Mss 77), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green River Research Collection (Mss 77), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 77. Chiefly photocopies of research materials relating to the Green River (Kentucky) and its tributaries. This data, gathered during 1984-1986, supported a Kentucky Museum grant proposal for a future exhibit focusing on the Green River Valley.
Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1678. Letter to Dr. A. S. Walker, Allen County, Kentucky, 9 November 1862, from Samuel James Read relating to military supplies during the Civil War.
Boyd Family Papers (Sc 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd Family Papers (Sc 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 53. Photostats of receipt for slaves and money to be transported to George and James Boyd in Texas, 1862; oath of allegiance, 1862; and Union military pass, Graves County, Kentucky, 1865.
Armitage, Valerius, 1827-1888 (Sc 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Armitage, Valerius, 1827-1888 (Sc 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 51. Confederate military pass issued to Valerius Armitage at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Jouett, George Payne, 1813-1862 (Sc 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jouett, George Payne, 1813-1862 (Sc 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 52. Letters written by Jouett, Lieutenant Colonel U.S.A. to his mother, Mrs. Matthew H. Jouett, Lexington, Kentucky from Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, concerning fortifications abandoned in Bowling Green and concerning family matters. Also letter, 1944, concerning the earlier letters.
Ward Family Letters (Sc 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ward Family Letters (Sc 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 27. Letter written to Jonathan Ward, Plymouth, New Hampshire, by his brother, Daniel Ward, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1840, which concerns family affairs and politics, and a letter written to Ralph Ward by his mother, Mrs. Catherine Ward, Talbottom, Georgia, 1861, which concerns her experience of traveling on a railway car with Jefferson Davis and southern pre-Civil War sentiments.
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1721. Correspondence related to the archaeological excavation of Civil War fortification, Fort Williams, in Glasgow, Kentucky. Also, report of archaeologist Jack M. Schock, news clipping, and photos.
Duncan, Wand Bolivar, 1884-1970 (Mss 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Wand Bolivar, 1884-1970 (Mss 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 57. Wand and Duncan family correspondence, 1863-1917 (8); informational letters about "Sue Munday" and the disaster of the steamboat Bowling Green, 1940-1960 (7); receipts, printed items, clippings, etc., and account book of general store at Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1858-1860.
Prowse, George Odom, 1840-1884 (Sc 1718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Prowse, George Odom, 1840-1884 (Sc 1718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1718. Pension requests made by George O. Prowse and his widow, Nannie C. Prowse, related to his Civil War service with the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry. Includes his 1864 commission as a captain in the Kentucky militia.
Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1733. Research notes (saved on CD-ROM) used in the compilation of "History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891" (first published in 1992; paperback in 2003). Includes an index with eighteen specialized topics.
Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1745. Letter, 10 March 1862, from John E. Lane, serving with the 17th Ohio in Nashville, Tennessee, to an unnamed uncle describing skirmishes near Somerset, Kentucky and his regiment's meandering progress from Ohio to Nashville.
Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 1722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 1722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1722. Diary kept 10 December 1860 to 8 September 1862 by Johanna "Josie" Louisa Underwood, eldest daughter of a prominent pro-Union family in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She vividly records her thoughts and activities about Bowling Green's occupation by Confederate troops, the harassment of her family, strained friendships, and the destruction of her home.
Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 55. Correspondence, 1931-1970 (33 items), chiefly of William Montgomery Temple, originally of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an autograph collector; his collection of papers of Kentucky governors, 1805-1951 (50); other autograph letters, 1715-1941 (17); and articles about Bowling Green, etc., (23).
Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1709. Paper: "The Early History of Bowling Green," presented by Johanna Louisa "Josie" Nazro at a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1707. Diary kept by Thomas D. Whitehead, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, from 29 November 1862 to 12 October 1863 while traveling with his company to Port Hudson, Louisiana then back home to Wayne County, Tennessee. He comments on camp life, the weather, his own failing health, and his hopes for peace.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Wilson, William Michael, B. 1956 (Mss 224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, William Michael, B. 1956 (Mss 224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 224. Unedited draft of Wilson's book, "History of the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Regiment," a Union regiment consisting chiefly of soldiers from southcentral Kentucky. They participated in numerous engagements in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1668. Letters from William Barnett Howard, serving with the 3rd Kentucky Regiment (C.S.A.) in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi to his family in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. He provides a private's observations of daily camp life. Includes correspondence related to the letters and associated data.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1626. Copies of letters exchanged in an attempt to identify four Confederate soldiers killed in Hopkins County, Kentucky in 1865 and interred in an unmarked grave in the Madisonville Odd Fellows Cemetery in Hopkins County.
Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.
Warren County Historical Society (Mss 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County Historical Society (Mss 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 206. This collection consists chiefly of administrative papers related to the Society, including minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, and clippings. Also includes historical essays written by Warren County students.
Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Mss 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Mss 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and several representative photographs for Manuscripts Collection 48. Photographs and informational material collected by Courtney M. Ellis relating to steamboats which operated in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, including correspondence with other collectors and steamboatsmen, and publications of steamboating. To see a copy of "History of Steamer, J.C. Kerr, Chaperone, Choctaw" click on "Additional Files."
Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 91. War of 1812 letters, 1814-1815 (3), written by James Hines to his wife, also deeds and will; John Hines papers pertaining to selling and employing slaves, 1823-1840 (3); and correspondence, etc., 1856-1879 (27) of John Henry Hines, from Johnson's Island, an Ohio prisoner of war camp. The Hines family migrated from Virginia to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Various other family items are in the collection.
Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1619. Clark family correspondence, chiefly 1864-1865 letters from Confederate soldier Philip G. Clark, serving with the 28th Virginia Infantry, to his wife, Sarah, and children, near Roanoke, Virginia, commenting on the hardships faced by the troops and his desire to return home. Also, 1867 letter to Sarah Clark from her brother, George A. Mullen.
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1617. Civil War reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty, Harrison County, Kentucky, recounted in 1905 to his son W.T. Lafferty. John A. Lafferty served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and later with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. W.T. Lafferty adds an account of his family's lives as Confederate sympathizers in Harrison County during the war.
Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1605. Military records of Union soldier Grider who served as a staff officer with the 9th Kentucky Infantry and the 52nd Kentucky Infantry. Also, documents relating to pension requests made by Grider and his widow, Kittie A. Grider.
Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1612. Letter, 12 September 1862, from Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio to William Single discussing conditions in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. He expresses fervent pro-Union and anti-slavery sentiments.
Poak, David W., 1842-1879 (Sc 1584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Poak, David W., 1842-1879 (Sc 1584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1584. Civil War letter, Union, from David W. Poak, of the 30th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Camp McClernand near Cairo, Illinois, to his sister Sadie J. Poak, New Castle, Pennsylvania. He discusses some maneuvers in western Kentucky, near Columbus and Paducah.
Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1573. Letter dated 21 January 1862, written by H. H. Downing, serving with the Union army near Somerset, Kentucky, to his brother and sisters. He relates events concerning the fighting around Somerset and the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer, and sends a piece of Zollicoffer's coat as a souvenir.
Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans of selected Civil War material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1568. Receipts, inventories and letters relating to the business enterprises and travels of merchant Wade Veluzat, Barren County, Kentucky. Civil War letters to Union sympathizer Veluzat, military passes, and letters from his wife Eliza (Clark) Veluzat describing the family's situation at home. Material related to the Veluzat and Pace family genealogies is also included.