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Hendricks, Josiah S., 1843-1932 (Sc 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hendricks, Josiah S., 1843-1932 (Sc 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 60. Union Army discharge, 1865, and pension certificate of Josiah S. Hendricks, Simpson County, Kentucky, 1899-1930. Also biographical notes as related by his daughter, Miss Alma Hendricks, 1959.
Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 607. Photocopies of Civil War papers of James Willis Wood of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which include his enlistment papers, letters, 1864 (9 items), written while in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and his discharge papers, 1864.
Owens, Philip, 1925-1944 (Sc 2614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, Philip, 1925-1944 (Sc 2614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2614. Two letters from Philip Owens, of Russell Springs, Kentucky, to his sisters, written during Owens’ Army service in World War II. He comments on a rigorous march, warns about mail censorship, and asks them to keep his mother from worrying. Includes typescripts of the letters and of local newspaper articles published after Owens was killed in action in Germany.
Wade, Frances Ann, 1927-2008 (Sc 2599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wade, Frances Ann, 1927-2008 (Sc 2599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2599. World War II letters to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, teenager Frances Ann Wade from James T. Smith and David W. Kerr. Smith, a Kentuckian serving in the Navy, writes about his training in Vermont and his service in the Pacific. Kerr, a soldier from Ohio, writes from nearby Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and from France after his deployment. The letters describe their daily activities and reveal their plans for the future.
Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 740. Mexican War letter of John Gillaspy Donan, Barren County, Kentucky, to his brother, Fountain, 29 December 1847 from Jalapa regarding conditions in Mexico, morale, yellow fever, etc. Also Mustering-Out List of Co. K, 4th Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers, and Mason’s Diploma, 13 October 1847.
Trago, Vincent T., 1838-1880 (Sc 2500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trago, Vincent T., 1838-1880 (Sc 2500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2500. Letter, 26 February [1862], from Vincent T. Trago, a Union soldier serving with an Ohio regiment, to Milton W. Griffith. Camped on the Barren River outside Bowling Green, Kentucky following its evacuation by the Confederates, Trago describes marching toward the town, being greeted by local women, Confederate positions in the region, and disciplinary action against the troops for misconduct.
Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 622. Correspondence and clippings of letters written to newspaper editors and various people by Alonzo M. Causey of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1935-1972 (39) and letter and press conference summary written in French and sent in reply to letter of Causey’s to Charles de Gaulle, 1966 (4). Click on "Additional Files" below to see Spanish-American War related material in this small collection.
Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 626. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Samuel Thomas Davis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was in the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The journal relates his experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama with the dates of his stay in Kentucky being 21 October 1861-28 February 1862 and 13 September 1862-23 October 1862 and described on pages 1-5 and 16-21.
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 628. Correspondence of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., of Munfordville, Kentucky, with Mary Leiper Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in Alaska and Okinawa.
Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 627. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Williamson Dixon Ward of Deer Creek, Indiana, who was in the 8th Indiana Cavalry Regiment, Company D. The journal relates his experiences of camp life in Indiana and Kentucky, with the majority of his time being spent in Kentucky – 22 September 1861 to 7 February 1862 and described on pages 8-60.
Fenwick, John, 1890-1937 (Sc 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fenwick, John, 1890-1937 (Sc 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 552. Letter written to Miss Florence Schneider, Bowling Green, Kentucky, probably by John Fenwick of Bowling Green, Kentucky, who was serving with the American Expeditionary Forces
in France. He gives brief but vivid descriptions of his experiences. Also includes information about Fenwick.
Wickersham Family Papers (Sc 560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wickersham Family Papers (Sc 560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 560. Bound typescripts of 73 letters, 1861-1877, and an 1887 deed of the Wickersham family, Mercer County, Kentucky. The collection includes 53 Civil war letters, chiefly written to the family by brothers William, Jacob and George Wickersham, who served with Kentucky Union regiments. The majority of these letters are from William who prayed for peace and to be reunited with his family, but he died in 1863. Additionally, there are other family letters from 1863 to 1877.
Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scans of items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 526. Samuel Clark, Bowling Green, Kentucky, was Captain of Co. B, 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish –American War. Papers include muster roll, roll call book, Clark’s discharge and pension papers, photo of Clark in uniform, Clark family genealogy, and miscellaneous items.
Ginther Collection (Sc 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ginther Collection (Sc 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 464. Photocopies of typescripted letters written by brothers William A. and Joseph Ginther to their father, George Ginther, brother David, and sister of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while serving in the Union Army with the Department of the Potomac.
Enscore, James Albert, D. 1865 (Sc 2541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Enscore, James Albert, D. 1865 (Sc 2541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2541. Letter of James A. Enscore, written to his family while serving with the 56th Illinois Regiment encamped near the Memphis Railroad in Tennessee. James mentions his recovery from illness and the arrival of his brother George, and asks for letters from family members. Both James and George were lost on the steamer General Lyon when it caught fire during a storm off Cape Hatteras on 31 March 1865.
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Compiler (Sc 2536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Compiler (Sc 2536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2536. List compiled by Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. of Warren County, Kentucky, World War II veterans interred in foreign cemeteries or recognized on “monuments to the missing,” based on records of the American Battle Monuments Commission. List provides name, rank, cemetery name and location.
Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, B. 1922 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, B. 1922 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2509. Letters from Edwin Pierce Fulkerson, Germany, to his parents, Elmer M. and Nora Fulkerson, and uncle, Jesse Fulkerson, Sonora, Kentucky, in which he details his life in the military during World War II. Includes wartime log and other memorabilia documenting Fulkerson’s imprisonment in a German stalag during World War II, as well as Ben H. Phelper’s published and illustrated reminiscences from the same prison.
Brown, Archie Lee, 1897-1989 (Sc 2504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Archie Lee, 1897-1989 (Sc 2504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2504. Letter, 10 February 1919, from Archie L. Brown, serving in France during World War I, to his father J. L. Brown, Rockport, Kentucky, in which he inquires about home.
Davenport, Bowman, Jr., 1927-2003 (Sc 2508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davenport, Bowman, Jr., 1927-2003 (Sc 2508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2508. Letters from Bowman Davenport, Jr., while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to his mother Margaret L. Davenport , Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he inquires about home and mentions his interactions on the military base.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Boutcher, Robert M., 1912-1975 (Sc 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boutcher, Robert M., 1912-1975 (Sc 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 250. V-mail letter to Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly, Maceo, Kentucky, from Robert Boutcher, written during his military service in Italy. Boutcher thanks them for a Christmas gift and comments briefly on his unit’s aerial combat activities.
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.
Owens, John Stiles, Jr., 1918-1945 (Sc 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, John Stiles, Jr., 1918-1945 (Sc 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 242. Letter, 20 August 1945, written by John S. Owens, World War II pilot from Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, serving in the Far East to Mary E. Marks, a former teacher, regarding his flights from India to China, and the V-J Day celebration. Also, three examples of Chinese paper money from the period, and a 4 July 1969 letter from Miss Marks with information about Owens.
Lane Collection (Sc 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 2493. Documents relating to Garland Paxton’s military service in the U.S. Army’s 319th Infantry Regiment during World War II.