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Military History

Western Kentucky University

2013

Ohio

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Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

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 Apr 2013

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 Apr 2013

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 Mar 2013

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 Mar 2013

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 Mar 2013

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 Feb 2013

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 Jan 2013

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.