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Hagerman Family Papers (Sc 2693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Hagerman Family Papers (Sc 2693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2693. Enlistment papers signed by Lee Hagerman and Perry Hagerman at Bowling Green, Kentucky on 19 June 1864 for three years’ service in the United States Colored Volunteers. The papers were prepared by Captain A. G. Hobson and furnished to Mrs. Ruth Hagerman as owner of the services of the recruits.


Williams, Drura Mack, 1891-1954 (Sc 923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Williams, Drura Mack, 1891-1954 (Sc 923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 923. Typescript of 1943 letter written by Drura M. Williams while serving with the Army in Italy to Dr. and Mrs. Finis London, Woodburn, Warren County, Kentucky. He is complimentary of the Women’s Army Corps and discusses the time he spent in North Africa. Also, newspaper clipping related to the letter. The original letter may be found in MSS 330, Box 1, Folder 5.


Matthews, James (Sc 957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Matthews, James (Sc 957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 957. Letter to James O. Fahling, Sr., Mundelein, Illinois, from James Matthews who is serving in Vietnam. He describes a successful skirmish that his group of eight fought against a Viet Cong column of thirty.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 956. Letters, 1861-1864 (3), written by three soldiers from Indiana. Two are stationed in Virginia and describe recent battles and camp life. The letter writer from 1864 speculates that the war is almost over and describes Raleigh, North Carolina, and military affairs there.


Spainhoward, William C., B. 1948 (Sc 960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Spainhoward, William C., B. 1948 (Sc 960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 960. Letter, 6 June 1970, of William C. Spainhoward, Henderson County, Kentucky, from Vietnam to his mother, detailing the treatment given to Vietnamese children during the Vietnamese Conflict; and notes on his interview by Barbara Smith, 1995, and Vietnam photos. Also notes on Smith’s 1995 interview with James T. Smith, Warren County, Kentucky, about his service in Europe during World War II, etc.


King, Stephen Lynn, B. 1954 (Mss 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

King, Stephen Lynn, B. 1954 (Mss 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 110. Correspondence, 1994-1997 (31); lists of Confederate soldiers in Bowling Green, Kentucky; and research materials, 1861-1997 (46); used by King in writing his book Confederate Dead at Bowling Green, Kentucky and Vicinity, 1997.


Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of letter (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2690. Letter, 22 March 1866, to a newspaper editor from Captain William Schenck, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky with the 119th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. He denies the editor’s claim that an outbreak of smallpox in the town was attributable to “careless Negro soldiers” and describes the measures taken to control the disease among his troops.


Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 968. Partial letter, 1862, written by Abyram P. Staats, a private in the 74th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, while stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He recounts how he shot his thumb off and the miseries of camp life. Discharge certificate, 1863, and photo included.


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.


Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 918. Photocopies of the Civil War enlistment, promotion, and discharge papers of Henry Peyton Bledsoe, Logan County, Kentucky. He was a member of Company E, 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.


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.


World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 971. Photocopies of letters (2), written to Milwaukee, Wisconsin residents, chiefly concerning naval life in South America, 1944, and including comments about bombing devastation and V-E Day celebrations in Europe.


Bruce, Horatio Washington, 1830-1903 (Sc 2685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bruce, Horatio Washington, 1830-1903 (Sc 2685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2685. Handbill of H. W. Bruce announcing his candidacy to represent the 7th Congressional District of Kentucky in the Congress of the Confederate States, and outlining his objectives if elected. Includes an endorsement from the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier, 2 January 1862.


Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


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.


Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 978. Paper written by Francis Vincent Gardler for a Western Kentucky University history class based on an interview with Lowell Hayes Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The paper focuses on Harrison’s World War II experiences.


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

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

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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.


Runner, William Taylor, 1890-1969 (Sc 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Runner, William Taylor, 1890-1969 (Sc 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 989. Certificate, 1 December 1915, investing William Taylor Runner with authority as a 2nd Lieutenant, Co. A, 3rd Infantry, Kentucky National Guard, effective 23 February 1914. Signed by Governor James B. McCreary.


Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, 1824-1863 (Sc 693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, 1824-1863 (Sc 693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 693. Letter of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, 17 August 1861, from First Brigade headquarters near Manassas, Virginia to Governor John Letcher of Virginia. Clarifying a recommendation of promotion he had desired for Major William Baylor, Jackson denies an intention to have Baylor replace the current incumbent in his old regiment as colonel.


Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 997. Letter, 11 May 1919, written by William Swan Van Meter, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his mother while stationed in Germany serving with the American Expeditionary Forces. He notes General John J. Pershing’s request that every soldier write his mother that day (Mother’s Day), and describes military life as a soldier awaiting his next orders. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Van Meter in uniform.


Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 681. Letter, 1 January 1864, of Union Army General Jeremiah Tilford Boyle, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, to Captain Alexander C. Semple, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding changes of command in the state.


Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2679. Military orders, reports and correspondence of or to Colonel Benjamin Covington Grider, commander of the Ninth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The reports and Grider’s letter to his father detail action during the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Includes a memorial tribute to Grider’s son, Judge Loving Grider, with some family information.


Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 901. World War I discharge certificate of Frank Young Patterson of Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky.


Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 903. A journal compiled by Robert M. Cox listing Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky Confederate veterans and those who are deceased; items of the Bowling Green United Confederate Veterans, 1915, 1923; and newspaper clipping of Cox’s obituary.


Lawson, Marjorie C. (Barker), 1905-1991 (Sc 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Lawson, Marjorie C. (Barker), 1905-1991 (Sc 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 673. Letter of Mrs. Marjorie (Barker) Lawson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to Julia Neal, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning her grandfather, John W. Barker, and a photostat of his account of his Civil War service in the Confederate Army.


Hines, Warner Underwood, 1896-1949 (Sc 2680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hines, Warner Underwood, 1896-1949 (Sc 2680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2680. Certificate of appointment as Ensign in the U.S. Navy, issued to Warner Underwood Hines, 6 June 1919.


World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 913), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 913), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 913. Three May 1994 letters, written by D-Day invasion veterans from Warren County, Kentucky in response to a request from the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Daily News for first-hand accounts of the operation. Also, photocopy of the newspaper article based on these accounts, published 5 June 1994.


United Spanish-American War Veterans Of Kentucky (Sc 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

United Spanish-American War Veterans Of Kentucky (Sc 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 911. Minutes of the second annual meeting of the United Spanish War Veterans of Kentucky held at Jefferson County Armory, Louisville, Kentucky, 5- 6 May 1925. Also, 1941 obituary of Frank L. Strange, Bowling Green, Kentucky, who was the commander of the 1925 veterans encampment.


World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 908. Letters, 1993-1994, written by Kentucky veterans or family members and submitted to Kentucky Living magazine concerning the 6 June 1944 Normandy invasion. An article based on some of these letters was published in the June 1994 issue of the magazine. The collection does not include photographs, which were returned to the letter writers, and is also missing some enclosures.


Beller, William Young, 1834-1892 (Sc 889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Beller, William Young, 1834-1892 (Sc 889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 889. Papers, 1881-1892 (8), of William Y. Beller, Butler County, Kentucky; his wife Rachel, 1893-1894 (3); and guardian of their son Alonzo, 1897 (1) concerning claims for a Civil War pension because of an illness contracted by Beller while serving in the war.