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Military History

Western Kentucky University

2013

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Tuttle, John William, 1838-1927 (Sc 1197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Tuttle, John William, 1838-1927 (Sc 1197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

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.


Hume, Glee, 1902-1998 (Mss 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Hume, Glee, 1902-1998 (Mss 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 470. Letters written 1940-1946 to Glee Hume, a teacher at Burkesville High School, Cumberland County, Kentucky, by former students and relatives serving in various military service units around the world.


Scott, Kevin (Sc 1155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Scott, Kevin (Sc 1155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1155. Desert Storm letters (5) written by Kevin Scott to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Scott, Coronado, California, and to his Uncle Robert and Aunt Jane Walker, Cadiz, Kentucky. Also includes a travel account of this trip aboard a ship to the Persian Gulf in Spring 1989, and newspaper clippings about Scott.


Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

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.


Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

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, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 983. Letter written from France by Cooper Ray Smith to his sister Mackie Bennett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his trip to France, the end of World War I, and inquiring about events in Bowling Green.


Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Mss 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Mss 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 102. World War II correspondence of William Perry Stamps, Jr., a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which chiefly includes letters (99) to Sallie Hills, Bowling Green, and Laura H. Savard (37), Lakeland, Florida. Stamps was stationed at military bases in Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Italy. Also includes letters of George L. Smith, a native of Bowling Green, to Sallie Hills.