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Allen, John G., 1837?-1863 (Sc 2795), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, John G., 1837?-1863 (Sc 2795), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2795. Pocket diary of John G. Allen, containing a few brief notations made while Allen was serving in the Union Army in 1862 and was encamped near Nashville; letter to his sister from camp, 24 November 1862, assuring her that he has had enough to eat; two promissory notes of Allen’s; and a summons to Allen to appear in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Court to answer a claim for debt.
Artus, James (Sc 1274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Artus, James (Sc 1274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1274. Letter, 18 January 1861, written by James Artus, a veteran of the War of 1812, to G.L Forman and H. Taylor, concerning procurement of medals from the state for himself and three other surviving Kentucky volunteers. He also expresses his hope that Kentucky supports the Union.
Benedict, Harrison, 1813-1900 (Sc 2789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Benedict, Harrison, 1813-1900 (Sc 2789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2789. Letter, 30 March 1862 of Harrison Benedict, Scottsville, Kentucky, to his cousin David Selby in Jamestown, Kentucky. He reports on military activity in the area, including Confederate searches of his and his mother’s homes, the theft of guns, horses and wagons, and the destruction of bridges. He includes his wife Emily T. Benedict as a signatory to the letter.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1203. Applications for John Dill Paschal and Elisha Paschal for the Confederate States of America Roll of Honor and an application for Will J. Harris for the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cross of Honor.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1223. Civil War certificate signed by President Abraham Lincoln appointing Herbert M. Enos to the position of First Lieutenant in the regiment of mounted riflemen.
Braly, William D. (Sc 1188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Braly, William D. (Sc 1188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1188. Letter written by William D. Braly, stationed near Tullahoma, Tennessee, to Miss A.E. Abernathy. He mentions that his regiment is guarding a bridge near Tullahoma, but he is chiefly concerned about not receiving a letter from her despite writing to her about a year earlier.
Tuttle, John William, 1838-1927 (Sc 1197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tuttle, John William, 1838-1927 (Sc 1197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1197. “History of the Third Kentucky Volunteers” written by John William Tuttle, Wayne County, Kentucky, from a diary that he kept of his Civil War experiences. Includes associated data.
Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1181. Letter, 18 December [1862], written by Union soldier Charles Caley, stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his wife in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio. He discusses his illness, his arrival in Bowling Green Green from Louisville with six hundred troops, and their encampment in an old sawmill.
Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 477. Civil war diaries (1864-1865), service and pension records of James Pleasant Haynes of Warren County, Kentucky, who served with the 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Civil War, 1861-1965 - Pensions (Sc 1102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1965 - Pensions (Sc 1102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1102. Materials related to Civil War pension claim of Thomas J. Winfrey, Russell County, Kentucky, and his widow, Mary (Sharp) Winfrey. Also includes document certifying the death of Corporal Hugh A. Sharp on 18 July 1863 in a hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Wiltse, Jason S., 1843-1874 (Sc 2760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wiltse, Jason S., 1843-1874 (Sc 2760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2760. Diary of Jason S. Wiltse, kept while serving as a corporal with the 23rd Michigan Infantry. He describes the countryside, weather and conditions during his tour of duty in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and notes the names of his correspondents. He also describes the battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee, and refers (p. 68) to having been in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Christmas Day 1862. Includes a photograph of Wiltse in uniform.
Blake, Rufus George, 1846-1929 (Sc 1095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blake, Rufus George, 1846-1929 (Sc 1095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1095. Letter, 17 July 1927, by Rufus George Blake, Crossett, Arkansas, to his granddaughter Maxine (Blake) Walker. Relates briefly his and his father Hiram Blake's Civil War experiences, which resulted in Hiram being killed near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes 1997 letter related to earlier document.
Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1094. Documents mainly of Wall family members of Cynthiana (Harrison County), Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas. The family correspondence includes three Civil War era letters. The financial receipts include one for the cost of an 1841 servant’s coffin.
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Simons, J. R. (Sc 1092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simons, J. R. (Sc 1092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1092. Three letters, June-December 1863, from J. R. Simons, serving with the Union army near Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his cousins Harriet and Nancy Trout, Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky. He describes the fighting at Vicksburg as well as conditions before and after the battle.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1090. Commutation money receipt given to Henry J. McLean, Owensboro, Kentucky. McLean, a colonel drafted into the Union army from Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District, paid $300 to receive a discharge from further liability for the draft. Receipt signed by George D. Blakey
Burch, James W., B. 1808? (Sc 1088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burch, James W., B. 1808? (Sc 1088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1088. Letter, 23 November 1862, written by Burch, Henry County, Tennessee to his brother, Benjamin D. Burch, relating the economic impact of the war and describing guerrilla activities in his home area. Includes photo of Burch and his wife.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military Life (Sc 1029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military Life (Sc 1029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1029. Undated letter written by "Tom," from Headquarters of the 1st Regiment, to his father. He discusses the conditions and lack of food within the camp. The location of the camp is unknown.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
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Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scan of transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1017. Civil War letter written by J. R. DuMarey?, Lexington, Kentucky, to his father in Delta (Fulton County, Ohio), relating camp news. Mentions an owner reclaiming his enslaved African American who had been working for one of the army captains.
J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2702. Blank agreements for the services of J.W. Cardwell & Company to procure contracts and make out claims of sundry persons for slaves in the military service of the United States. Includes the terms of compensation. One agreement is undated; the other is dated 1865 and references claims to be made in Warren County, Kentucky.
Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2703. Circuit judge’s order, affidavit and statement relating to applications for discharge or exemption from military service in the U. S. Army. An underaged apprentice is discharged for enlisting without the consent of his master, one of three sons seeks exemption to care for aged parents, and an unnamed officer seeks a discharge due to poor health.
Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 455. Correspondence, accounts, land surveys, and miscellaneous business and legal papers of Orlando C. Bowles, a Civil War veteran, lawyer, farmer, and timber trader of Pike County, Kentucky. Includes some material relating to the Cecil family of Floyd and Pike counties.
Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1011. General Order Number 32, 11 November 1861, issued at Paducah, Kentucky, by Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith. Order contains reports of the troops under the command of Brigadier General Eleazer Arthur Paine that had recently marched to Milburn, Kentucky. They are described as a “mere armed mob” and reprimanded for looting. Includes data about Smith.
Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 1007. Family letters of the Fox and Walthall families, chiefly of Mildred P. (Walthall), Joseph, Rachel M. and William S. Fox of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The collection includes family correspondence, Civil War letters, 1861-1862 (34), and courtship letters.
Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.
Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 939. Letter, 28 November 1861, written by William T. Clark, Camp Nolin, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his aunt, Elisabeth Thompson, East Nottingham, Pennsylvania. He describes the setting up and moving out of a camp; estimates there are about 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the area; and mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s presence in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 941. Civil War letters (5), by Tennessee Confederate Jefferson Dean, to his wife, Sophia. His regiment was stationed in southeastern Kentucky, then Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He describes his company’s activities in preparation for the Battle of Mill Springs and with Felix Zollicoffer’s forces at Johnson’s Island, where he died. Other items include war records and photographs concerning Dean and Johnson’s Island cemetery.
Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 930. Notes related to the early history of Barren County, Kentucky, and the establishment of the county seat, Glasgow. Also, copy of the record of the organizational meeting of Barren County’s Confederate Aid Society, 8 June 1872. Includes a list of the veterans and citizens who joined that day.