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Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts of letters (attached as additional files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2101. Two letters from John McKee, serving with the 37th Indiana Infantry, to his wife Sarah McKee in Hamilton, Ohio. He writes of his encampments near Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, his reading, nearby guerrilla activity involving John Hunt Morgan, difficulties with mail, and the general condition of the countryside.
Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2080. Order granting a ten-day furlough to James Madison Simmons and his cousin Josephus Simmons, serving in the First Tennessee Cavalry, in order to return home to Sumner County, Tennessee, to obtain horses.
Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1929. Correspondence, poems, song lyrics, recipes, accounts, clippings, and miscellaneous records relating to the Taylor family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes letters of a Kentucky soldier writing of battle in east Tennessee during the Civil War, 1864 (Click on "Additional Files" for scans).
Williams, Freeman (Sc 2053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Freeman (Sc 2053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2053. Letter, 10 January 1862, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky by Freeman Williams, a Confederate soldier, to his brother Thomas in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He briefly sends his regards to family and asks to be sent letters.
Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2048. Letter from Frank M. Phelps, serving in the 10th Wisconsin Infantry, to his uncle in Wisconsin. He describes his company's march to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the sight of dead horses, the shelling of Bowling Green, the destruction he found there, and the supplies the Confederates left behind.
Field, Robert Willis, B. 1841? (Sc 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Field, Robert Willis, B. 1841? (Sc 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2016. Discharge and pension papers of Robert Willis Field, a native of Shelby County, Kentucky who served in several units during the Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Perryville. Includes correspondence to and from his attorneys.
Bratcher, John W., 1834-1920 (Sc 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bratcher, John W., 1834-1920 (Sc 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2012. Discharge and pension papers for John W. Bratcher, who served in Company H, 35th Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Infantry during the Civil War.
Steele, Henry N., 1833-1865 (Sc 2309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steele, Henry N., 1833-1865 (Sc 2309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2309. Diary kept by Confederate Henry N. Steele, a second lieutenant serving in the Warren Light Artillery, Warren County, Mississippi, from 17 August 1861 to 31 December 1861. Brief entries discuss troop movements and skirmishes in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and especially southcentral Kentucky. He makes more in-depth comments about a skirmish at Woodsonville, Hart County, Kentucky on 17 December 1861.
Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, both personal and professional, as well as research material related to books and articles published by Stickles, a native of Indiana and a history professor at Western Kentucky University from 1908 to 1954. His most popular book was "Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight."
Donaldson, Gary - Collector (Sc 2266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donaldson, Gary - Collector (Sc 2266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2266. Research material consisting chiefly of communications to General Braxton Bragg regarding military operations in Kentucky, September 1862 to April 1863.
Smith, Edmond, 1843?-1863 (Sc 1915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Edmond, 1843?-1863 (Sc 1915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1915. Letter from Edmond Smith, serving with the 4th Indiana Artillery, to "Annie" describing his regiment's reception in Louisville, Kentucky and his reaction to negative comments besmirching his character. Written on letterhead with the word "UNION!" printed in red and blue ink along with an eagle holding a shield decorated with stars and stripes.
De Roode, Eugenia (Sc 1909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
De Roode, Eugenia (Sc 1909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1909. Letter, 6 June 1862, from Eugenia De Roode, Nashville, Tennessee to James Overstreet, Hanly (Jessamine County) Kentucky. Formerly a music teacher at "Misses Jacksons' Seminary" in Lexington, Kentucky, De Roode writes of her negative views of Confederates, particularly those from Kentucky and Tennessee. She also makes cogent remarks about the work of Andrew Johnson, Tennessee's military governor.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns, Battles, Military Actions - Tebbs Bend, 1863 (Sc 1872), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns, Battles, Military Actions - Tebbs Bend, 1863 (Sc 1872), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1872. Letters related to the Battle of Tebbs Bend, Kentucky from two Union army participants; correspondence between Betty Mitchell Gorin and Lowell H. Harrison.
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 127. Letters of Joseph Holt written to family members about family matters, 1826, 1881 (2); letters concerning these early letters, 1961 (3); and typed copy of Holt's speech delivered to Kentucky troops under General Rosseau at Camp "Jo Holt" in Indiana, 31 July 1861.
Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1858. Information, chiefly published items, related to Hamilton's role in the escape of Union prisoners from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia in 1864. Also, details concerning his 1895 death.
Blackburn, John W., 1914-1985 (Sc 1868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blackburn, John W., 1914-1985 (Sc 1868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1868. Paper: "Butler County Boys in the Civil War" written by John W. Blackburn, which focuses on the Butler County, Kentucky members of the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Union) and the engagements in which they fought.
Riggs, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1930 (Sc 1857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riggs, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1930 (Sc 1857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1857. Memoir written by Benjamin Franklin Riggs, with particular emphasis on his Civil War service in Arkansas with Confederate forces. Also, a copy of his surrender document, 7 June 1865.
Parker, Elvis Brooks, 1841-1862 (Sc 1853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker, Elvis Brooks, 1841-1862 (Sc 1853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of all material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1853. Information gathered by an unnamed genealogist related to Elvis Brooks Parker's Civil War service. Parker, from Tennessee, was apparently court-martialed and shot for deserting the Confederate army and fighting for the Union army. His execution occurred after the Battle of Hartsville, Tennessee.
Lyon-O'Hara Papers (Sc 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lyon-O'Hara Papers (Sc 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 107. Business and personal letters of the Lyon and O'Hara families of Louisville and Eddyville, Kentucky, which chiefly concern army life (Union and Confederate), tobacco sales, and family matters. James O'Hara and Hylan B. Lyon are the principal correspondents.
Jackson, Martha Washington, 1837-1938 (Sc 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Martha Washington, 1837-1938 (Sc 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 95. Reminiscences of Martha W. Jackson, sister of Mary Frances (Jackson) Grider, 1829-1909, and sister-in-law of Tobias Smith Grider, 1824-1882. An account of affairs in Bowling Green, Kentucky during her lifetime, with emphasis on the Civil War period.
Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1827. Typescript of Civil War diary kept by David McKee Claggett from 1 October 1861 to 1 January 1865. Collection also includes associated research data.
Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and photograph of commission (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Richard F. Taylor's commission received as a member of the Middle Green River Battalion Volunteer Militia, 1865. Also promissory notes, 1875 (3), and blank affidavit regarding voter qualification, ca. 1900.
Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 333. Photocopy of a letter written by Dr. David Wendel Yandell to General Albert Sidney Johnston, concerning projected Confederate hospital facilities at Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1861. Explanatory note about the item from William Roberts Wood to Margie Helm.