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Givens, Wayne, 1905-1971 (Sc 2918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2015

Givens, Wayne, 1905-1971 (Sc 2918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2918. U.S. Army discharge papers and certificate of Wayne Givens, Monroe County, Kentucky, 1945; photostat of death certificate of Wayne Givens, 1971. Also includes Statement of Personal history form of Givens’ wife, Mildred (Hagan) Givens, with data on education, employment, etc.


Jarvis, George Perry, 1842-1920 (Sc 2913), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2015

Jarvis, George Perry, 1842-1920 (Sc 2913), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2913. Letters of George P. Jarvis, serving with the 3rd Ohio Infantry. From Camp Jefferson, Ohio, he thanks his family for supplies but adamantly dispels rumors that his regiment and others lack food. He notes recruiting efforts and speculates on the length of the war, which he defies England (“John Bull”) to enter on the Confederate side. From Bowling Green, Kentucky, he expresses doubt that peace is near and refers to meeting family friends in the town.


Tuttle, Augustus Sherman, 1824-1888 (Sc 2915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2015

Tuttle, Augustus Sherman, 1824-1888 (Sc 2915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2915. Letter, 6 September 1863, of Augustus S. Tuttle, serving with the 36th Massachusetts Infantry near Nicholasville, Kentucky, to his wife. He describes his work with an ambulance corps and the location of some of his wounded and sick comrades, and expresses pessimism about his chances of visiting home. He also complains about his treatment in the corps, which included an accusation of smuggling. Referring to general antipathy toward recently deceased division commander General Thomas Welsh, he quotes another officer’s wish to stone the hearse carrying his …


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2015

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Smith, Selby E., 1895-1986 - Collector (Sc 2898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2015

Smith, Selby E., 1895-1986 - Collector (Sc 2898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2898. Payroll of Captain Samuel Kirkham’s Company of Lincoln County, Kentucky militia. Lieutenant Henry Grider, later of Warren County, Kentucky, is among the names listed. This photocopy from Illinois Papers, Doc. 79, p. 1 was obtained from the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2015

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Smith, Elvin, Jr. - Collector (Mss 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

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.


Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 533. Correspondence, military orders, and instructional materials relating to Henry Herman Denhardt’s World War I service as a field artillery officer and postwar training as an officer in the Kentucky National Guard. Includes a few personal and political items relating to Denhardt’s campaign for Governor of Kentucky.


Potter, Thomas Corwin, 1841-1863 (Sc 2892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

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.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2015, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2015, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Elmore, Donald Ray, B. 1938 (Sc 2891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Elmore, Donald Ray, B. 1938 (Sc 2891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of memoir (click on "Additional Files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 2891. Biographical memoir, well illustrated, of Donald R. Elmore, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native, describing his family, childhood, career in the U.S. Army, which included tours in Germany and Vietnam, and post-military life in California. A DVD contains images of Elmore’s drawings, craft work, military photographs, and miscellaneous biographical data on his jobs, travels, etc.


Payne, Selden H., 1841-1926 (Sc 2890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Payne, Selden H., 1841-1926 (Sc 2890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2890. Letter of Selden H. Payne, 18 January 1863, written from Camp Nelson, Kentucky to his sister Mary Hills in Eagleville, Ohio. He describes the troops, Confederate prisoners and wounded of the camp and recounts his travels, including nights spent at the Louisville depot, a “Negro prison” in Lexington, and the court house in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He also describes the injury and death of a comrade at the Louisville depot after he fell under the troop rail car, originally used to transport hogs.


Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 531. Correspondence, research, historical and archaeological reports, contracts, budgets and other documents relating to the 1970s excavation and restoration of Fort Williams, a Civil War fortification at Glasgow, Kentucky.


Kirby, Carlisle Wilkins, 1890-1968 (Mss 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Kirby, Carlisle Wilkins, 1890-1968 (Mss 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 530. Note cards, memoranda, and grave registration forms compiled by Carlisle W. Kirby and others for the Veterans’ Graves Registration Project in Warren County, Kentucky, a project created by the Works Progress Administration to identify the graves of war veterans from the American Revolution through World War I. Included are names, service data, and the name of the cemetery, where known. Also includes clippings from the (Bowling Green, Kentucky) Park City Daily News about local soldiers serving in the Korean War.


Cockrill, David Steven, B. 1949 (Sc 1548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Cockrill, David Steven, B. 1949 (Sc 1548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1548. Correspondence between David Steven Cockrill, Louisville, Kentucky, and Ta Thi Chien, Da Nang, Vietnam, relating to their marriage. Includes photographs.


Harper Family Papers (Sc 1546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Harper Family Papers (Sc 1546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1546. Wartime correspondence between Private Alfred Harper and his wife Elizabeth W. (Montgomery) Harper. Harper, from Columbia, Kentucky was serving as a machine gunner with the 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division when he was killed in Belgium 25 November 1944. Includes telegrams and letters to his wife related to his death.


Jackson Family Letters (Sc 2883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Jackson Family Letters (Sc 2883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2883. V-mails to Aph P. Jackson, Eminence, Kentucky from her sons, Eli O. Jackson and Laban P. Jackson, written during their military service in World War II. Laban comments on a new birth in the family, on news of German and Japanese atrocities, and on the domestic peace movement; Eli asks about their farm and requests some twists of chewing tobacco.


Murphy, William Lansing, 1926-1986 (Sc 2881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Murphy, William Lansing, 1926-1986 (Sc 2881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2881. Letter of William L. Murphy, written to his parents in Newport, Kentucky from Ascom City, Korea. Murphy, a U.S. Army sergeant, writes of his fellow servicemen, gifts he has sent, and a rumor of troops being sent home.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Ua37/37 Faculty Personal Papers Arndt Stickles, Wku Archives Jan 2015

Ua37/37 Faculty Personal Papers Arndt Stickles, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Arndt Stickles, WKU History professor from 1908-1954. The collection includes articles, speeches, lecture notes and correspondence.


Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2014

Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.


Ebelhar, Melissa (Sc 1262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2014

Ebelhar, Melissa (Sc 1262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1262. Paper, “The Fairy Belle,” written by Melissa Ebelhar for a WKU history class. She discusses the service of her grandfather, Lucian D. Keller, Owensboro, Kentucky, as a waist gunner in the 392nd Air Force Division in Europe during World War II.


Jarvis, George Perry, 1842-1920 (Sc 2874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Jarvis, George Perry, 1842-1920 (Sc 2874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2874. Letter, 18 February 1862, of George P. Jarvis to L.R. Jarvis and friends in Athens County, Ohio, written while he was serving with the 3rd Ohio Infantry. He describes in detail the advance of his and other regiments on Bowling Green, Kentucky, their engagements with Confederate forces, and the destruction wrought by the Confederates during their retreat. Writing from one of the “principal houses” in town, Jarvis praises the taking of Bowling Green, calling it “one of the strongholds of this state” and the “Gibraltar …


Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 2873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 2873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2873. Letter, 15 January 1811, of Richard Mentor Johnson to General James Wilkinson, Washington, D.C. He discusses a congressional investigation into Wilkinson’s conduct and wishes for his acquittal, speculates about the tobacco trade and the fate of Florida on the eve of the War of 1812, asks for news of St. Louis, where a nephew lives, and complains about his health, particularly his asthma.


Daniels, Herbert, 1836-1899 (Mss 500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Daniels, Herbert, 1836-1899 (Mss 500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 500. Letters of Herbert Daniels, serving with the 7th Rhode Island Infantry, to Salina A. (Brewster) Waterson in Worcester, Massachusetts. He reports on camp life in Kentucky, Maryland and Washington, D.C., gossips about other soldiers, and makes candid references to his sexual relationship with Salina.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Nov. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Nov. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Campbell, John O., D. 1865 (Sc 2866), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Campbell, John O., D. 1865 (Sc 2866), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2866. Letter, 9 April 1863, of John O. Campbell, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry, written from Paris, Kentucky to friends. He comments on both the beauty and destruction in the area, on Confederate sympathies, especially among the women, and how they should be punished, and on camping at the Bourbon County fairgrounds. He also comments on local members of the Clay and Bacon families and on U.S. Senator Garrett Davis’s support of reprisals for disloyalty to the Union. Includes associated data on Campbell and his regiment.


Dowsman, George B. (Sc 2867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Dowsman, George B. (Sc 2867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2867. Letter, 24 September 1862, of George B. Dowsman, Company H, 75th Indiana Infantry. Writing from camp in Louisville, Kentucky, he describes conditions preceding a possible attack by Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s army, his company’s readiness, and its recent movements in Kentucky.


Wilson, John W. (Sc 2865), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Wilson, John W. (Sc 2865), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2865. Letter, 2 July 1864, of John W. Wilson, Company B, 2nd Kentucky Battalion Cavalry, written from Bristol, Virginia to the father of Private James Minter informing him that his son was killed at the 2nd Battle of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky and praising his character. Includes associated data on Wilson and Minter.