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Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Skinner, Asahel, 1814-1902 (Sc 3506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skinner, Asahel, 1814-1902 (Sc 3506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3506. Application, affidavit, and power of attorney, 4 May 1869, of Asahel Skinner, made to recover the amount of a claim for property loss in connection with the Morgan Raid of 1863 in Meigs County, Ohio. The form, headed “Morgan Raid Claims,” was completed pursuant to an Act of the Ohio Legislature passed 26 April 1869 authorizing such compensation. Includes a photocopy from an unidentified report indicating that Skinner received $220.00 for two horses, a colt, bridles and provisions.
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.
Madden, Cornelius J., 1842-1903 (Sc 3494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Madden, Cornelius J., 1842-1903 (Sc 3494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript of letter (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3494. Letter, 17 November 1862, to his mother from Cornelius Madden, serving with the 102nd Ohio Infantry at Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes an increase in patrols and fortifications precipitated by rumors of guerrilla leader John Hunt Morgan’s presence in the area. Anticipating an encampment for the winter, he suggests his mother and other “widows” send a box of provisions, prepaid in order to save expense. He reports hearing nothing of his father, also in military service, who he believes to be at Nashville, Tennessee. …
Hardesty, Isaac Ellis, 1841-1917 (Sc 3464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardesty, Isaac Ellis, 1841-1917 (Sc 3464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3464. Letters, 11 September 1862 and 4 April 1863, to his family from Isaac Hardesty, serving with the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From camp near Covington, Kentucky, he reports on his health and his efforts to have his clothing shipped home; he also describes his fortified camp, the sounds of battle nearby, the dangers posed to pickets, and his pleasure at glimpsing his home state from the nearby hills. From Louisville, Kentucky, he writes of his painful arm and his longing to be at home, but without …
Todd, Theophilus Law, 1841-1963 (Sc 3435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Todd, Theophilus Law, 1841-1963 (Sc 3435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3435. Letter, 19-21 September 1862, from Theophilus L. Todd to his sister Agnes Jane Todd. Camped near Louisville, Kentucky while serving with the 93rd Ohio Infantry, Todd thanks her for a package of food and clothing. He describes his surroundings and camp life, including the friendly reception the troops received in Louisville and competition between the camp sutler and local women in the sale of foodstuffs. He also writes critically of the behavior of Brigadier General James S. Jackson during a lengthy and tiresome review of the brigade.
Hebron, John L., 1842-1914 (Sc 3323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hebron, John L., 1842-1914 (Sc 3323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 3323. Letter, 20 February 1862, from John L. Hebron to his mother in Steubenville, Ohio. He reports his regiment’s arrival on the outskirts of Bowling Green, Kentucky, taken from Confederate forces “without firing a gun,” and describes attempting to cross a ruined bridge, his living quarters in a deserted house, and available food supplies. In a 25 February postscript from Nashville, Tennessee, he writes of the troops’ continued lack of success in crossing the river into Bowling Green, and mentions reports that the Confederates plan to “make a stand” south of Nashville. …
Dennis, John, 1832?-1914 - Letter To (Sc 3300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dennis, John, 1832?-1914 - Letter To (Sc 3300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3300. Letter, 2 January 1862, to John Dennis and his parents, Richland County, Ohio from John’s brother. In camp near Bardstown, Kentucky with the 64th Regiment, Company B, Ohio Volunteers, he praises Kentucky’s farms, crops and springs, and refers to two men of his acquaintance: William Clark, who is serving with the Confederate Army, and Charles Clark, who he met in Louisville, Kentucky and who boasted of his regiment’s superior skills and African American servants. The envelope bears a pro-Union image.
Kibbee, Amos Watson, 1828-1915 (Sc 3230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kibbee, Amos Watson, 1828-1915 (Sc 3230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3230. Letter, 26 January 1862, of Amos Watson Kibbee to his cousin, Hattie Tuttle, of Painesville, Ohio. From Camp Barker in Cairo, Illinois, he writes about camp life and rumors of possible cavalry soldiers being discharged and his experiences of late-night scouting duties. He also describes being in an advance guard with other soldiers, taking the town of Blandville, Kentucky, and arresting suspicious civilians. He writes about guarding a prisoner of war, and his change of religious views. Includes an Illinois Union envelope.
Miller, George W., B. 1843? (Sc 3220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, George W., B. 1843? (Sc 3220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3220. Letter, 19 January 1863, of George W. Miller to his sister. In camp at Bowling Green, Kentucky, the unhappy soldier writes of the threat of death from battle and disease, of “tyrannical” officers, and of a debt owed to him at home. He is angered to learn that an uncle in Fostoria, Ohio is a secessionist. He also mentions his brother Jacob’s engagement in a “big fight” lasting five days.
Cowing, Rufus Billings, 1840-1920 (Sc 3124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cowing, Rufus Billings, 1840-1920 (Sc 3124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3124. Letter, 21 February 1862, of attorney Rufus B. Cowing, New York City, to his mother. He encloses a letter from his brother (not included), who was then serving in the Union Army and would later be killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. Rufus notes his brother’s arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky after “the enemy had run away.” Believing the war will soon end, he speculates on his brother’s future in business and writes of his own desire to be financially independent.
Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3073. Letter, 28 May 1918, of Grant Sorgen, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to his family in Kenton, Ohio. He describes settling in at camp, receiving vaccinations, and the likelihood of moving to different quarters.
Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2990. Letters of James T. Parsons to his parents, written during his service with the 17th Ohio Infantry. He details his regiment’s arduous marches through Kentucky, especially Boyle and Pulaski counties, and remarks on bad roads, picket duty, and high prices charged by the sutler. He criticizes Kentucky soldiers as both braggarts and cowards. In December 1861, he speculates on the “great Battle to come” at Bowling Green but, in hospital at Nashville in August 1862, doubts the prospects for victory over the South. He …
Kerr, David Warren, 1922-1982 (Sc 2954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kerr, David Warren, 1922-1982 (Sc 2954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2954. Letter of David Kerr, 14-16 November 1944, to Frances Ann Wade, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Writing from an undisclosed overseas location while serving in the armed forces, he describes his surroundings in general and his work on a painting detail. He also encloses a marksman’s medal (not included in this collection) and praises the athletic achievements of his hometown Ohio high school.
Smith, Elvin, Jr. - Collector (Mss 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Elvin, Jr. - Collector (Mss 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection MSS 534. Collected research of Elvin Smith, Jr. relating to the Civil War in Kentucky and consisting mostly of typescripted soldiers’ diaries and letters. Also includes compiled data on regiments stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky and at Lost River Cave near Bowling Green, and lists of soldiers’ deaths at Bowling Green.
Potter, Thomas Corwin, 1841-1863 (Sc 2892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Potter, Thomas Corwin, 1841-1863 (Sc 2892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2892. Letter, 7 January 1862, of Private Thomas C. Corwin, Battery B, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, to his sister in Michigan. Writing from camp at Somerset, Kentucky, he reflects on the war’s duration and describes camp life, troop positions around Somerset, and local citizens’ fear of a coming battle. He also describes skirmishes with Confederate pickets and his hopes for an advance though Kentucky.
Perguson, Dee Carl, 1921-2010 (Sc 2861), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perguson, Dee Carl, 1921-2010 (Sc 2861), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2861. Letters of Ohio County, Kentucky native Dee Carl Perguson, written to Marjorie Clagett, his French teacher at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, during his World War II military service and afterward. He writes observantly of military life while training in Ohio, Georgia and Pennsylvania, of his experiences while serving in North Africa and Italy, and of his reassignment to Florida after suffering an arm wound. He also describes local plant life to Clagett, an accomplished amateur botanist. After the war, he writes from England during his postgraduate study. Settled in Seattle, Washington, …
Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2840. Letters of brothers Peter, Alfred and George Battey to a sister and a brother James, written during their Civil War service in the Union Army. From the “Colo Barracks” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Peter describes his duties as a teamster, criticizes the length of the war, and relays news of the killing of John Hunt Morgan by one “Gillman” and the capture of his men. Alfred writes from a hospital in New Orleans, and George writes from Bowling Green, where he and Peter continue on …
Kirby, Isaac Minor, 1835-1917 (Sc 2815), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirby, Isaac Minor, 1835-1917 (Sc 2815), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2815. Letter of Isaac M. Kirby, a captain in the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, written on 10 March [1862] to his aunt from Camp Andy Johnson near Nashville, Tennessee. He reports on his activities over the past month, including a march north toward Fort Donelson, a mock skirmish with some local bird life, a march to Bowling Green, Kentucky and two-day encampment there, and current conditions at Camp Andy Johnson. He also comments on the greater number of Union sympathizers in Kentucky than Tennessee, and on attacks …
House, John Moore, 1844-1865 (Sc 1280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
House, John Moore, 1844-1865 (Sc 1280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1280. Letter to John House from his father, S.C. House, Knoxville, Tennessee, and letter of John House to his aunt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letters concern family news and House’s needs as a Confederate prisoner of war at Johnson’s Island, Ohio.
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.
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.
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.
Wells, Thomas H., D. 1862 (Sc 2684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wells, Thomas H., D. 1862 (Sc 2684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text transcriptions (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2684. Letters of Thomas H. Wells, 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, to his sister Eliza J. Wells in Mogadore, Ohio. He writes from Camp Wickliffe in Larue County, Kentucky, of changes in military structure, of the local landscape, and of being hospitalized with the mumps. He also writes from Louisville, Kentucky, of his clerical work at headquarters, his patriotism, and the possibility of a military draft in Ohio.
Giesy, Henry Hensel, 1836-1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giesy, Henry Hensel, 1836-1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 975. Civil War letters, 1862-1863 (3), written by Henry H. Giesy of Company F, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, discussing military actions, especially battles at Shiloh, Tennessee and in the Vicksburg, Mississippi area, during the Civil War. Giesy was a brigadier general for the Union. Includes related research data.
Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2681. Charges and specifications preferred under a general court martial of William H. Herbert, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, for acts of disrespect to an officer, disobedience of orders, and mutiny committed at Fort College Hill near Bowling Green, Kentucky on 10 November 1863.
Pontius, Earl John, 1913-1980 (Mss 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pontius, Earl John, 1913-1980 (Mss 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Mansucripts Collection 425. Correspondence of Earl Pontius, on stateside military service during World War II, and his mother, Ida May (Heeter) Pontius, Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio. Pontius was stationed at Fort Thomas, Kentucky as part of a military police unit, and at Camp Ellis, Illinois, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as a hospital orderly.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 573. Two Confederate Civil War letters. Original and typescript of 18 December 1861 letter from “Foster,” Bowling Green, describing army conditions and reports of military actions; copy of original5 August 1863 letter from Martin N. Rogers, Camp Morton, Indianapolis, to his brother R.M. Rogers, Canton, Trigg County, relating conditions at the camp where he is a prisoner of war.
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.
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.