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Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and transcription (Click on Additional File) for Manuscripts Small Collection 554. Letter, 25-27 February 1862, to an unidentified recipient from Union soldier Jesse Smith upon his arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Smith describes the abandoned Confederate fortifications in some detail and comments on the surrounding countryside, the damage to the railroad and bridges, and the large numbers of troops converging on the area. He also relates news of the occupation of Nashville, Tennessee by Union forces.
Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2593. Letters of Josephine Rogers (Rowan) Reid, written from Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky to a friend, “Mary.” She writes in 1860 of treatment for an injured foot and an offer of marriage; reacts to Mary’s marriage to a Mr. Keating, notes the anniversary of her brother John’s death, and reports on her brother Lytle’s Civil War service in 1863; and writes of her own marriage and forthcoming move to New Orleans in 1865.
Cox, Samuel K., 1849-1925 (Sc 2597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox, Samuel K., 1849-1925 (Sc 2597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2597. Bound typescript diary of Captain Samuel K. Cox, Confederate Army, 17th Kentucky Infantry. The diary includes details about travel, camp life, and the capture of Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
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.
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.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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.
Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.