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Bryant, David Lee, 1923-2000 (Sc 2799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, David Lee, 1923-2000 (Sc 2799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2799. Typescripted personal history of David Lee Bryant (1923-2000) describing his upbringing in Todd County, Kentucky, his World War II military service, his capture by the Germans and liberation by the Russian Army, his subsequent work for a wholesale grocery firm, and his wife and three sons. Includes article about Bryant published 5 February 1986 in the (Greenville, Kentucky) Leader-News, and explanatory letter of his son Gary L. Bryant, 21 November 2013.
Rainey, Granville Phillip, 1890-1945 (Sc 1212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rainey, Granville Phillip, 1890-1945 (Sc 1212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1212. World War I letters, 1918-1919, written by Granville Rainey to his sister Mrs. Samuel D. Parker and her family in Evansville, Indiana. He especially describes military actions in France.
Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1199. Stories collected by Harry A. Keirns from American prisoners of war in Germany, describing the downing of their planes in German occupied areas during World War II.
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.
Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 1008), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 1008), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1008. Letters (11) and postcards (2) written to Allan and Vicki Harvey, Louisville, Kentucky, from several different Desert Storm soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. Also photo and associated letter.
Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 977. Telegrams, 1945 (5), discharge papers, 1945-1948 (3), broadside, newspaper clipping. and photographs (2), pertaining to Muhlenberg County native Marvin Ellis Morphew’s World War II service, especially as a German prisoner of war.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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.
Wood, Jonathan, 1795-1873 (Sc 824), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, Jonathan, 1795-1873 (Sc 824), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 824. Letter, 8 January 1865, from Jonathan Wood, Smithfield, Pennsylvania, to his son, Union soldier Pliny Wood. He writes with sympathy for the soldiers’ hardships, instructs him on saving postage, criticizes the privileges of congressmen, expresses contempt for the treason of Jefferson Davis and the Confederates, and remarks on the suffering of prisoners of war at Andersonville, Georgia; nevertheless, he hopes for reconciliation with ordinary Southerners after their defeat and repentance.