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Shepherd, Katherine A. (Sc 1156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Shepherd, Katherine A. (Sc 1156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1156. Desert Storm letters (14) written by different servicemen to Katherine Shepherd, Campbellsville, Kentucky, who was preparing a presentation for the Campbellsville Junior High School about the service in the Persian Gulf War. Letters answer specific questions asked by Shepherd.


Sullivan, Betty A. - Letters To (Sc 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Sullivan, Betty A. - Letters To (Sc 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1159. Desert Storm letters (25) by several servicemen to Betty A. Sullivan, Falls of Rough, Kentucky. Also included are examples of newsletters (3) and copies of letters sent by Sullivan to servicemen during the Persian Gulf War.


Radford, A. Todd (Sc 1151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Radford, A. Todd (Sc 1151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1151. Desert Storm letters (26) written by A. Todd Radford to this father Robert Radford and family in Louisville, Kentucky, discussing his war service in Saudi Arabia.


Gordon, Tom (Sc 1138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Gordon, Tom (Sc 1138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1138. Desert Storm pictorial postcard with message from Tom Gordon to B.J. Senior of LaGrange, Kentucky.


Mize, Melinda - Letters To (Sc 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Mize, Melinda - Letters To (Sc 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1149. Desert Storm letters (8) and postcard sent to Melinda Mize, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by her brother Charles Wayne Mize and a friend James H. Davis. Also included are clippings with information about Charles W. Mize.


Rothman, Michael C. (Sc 1153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Rothman, Michael C. (Sc 1153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1153. Desert Storm letter written about the U.S.S. Saratoga by Michael C. Rothman to his mother, Betty Gardner, Louisville, Kentucky.


Barnett, Charles Wesley (Sc 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Barnett, Charles Wesley (Sc 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1131. Christmas card, photo of Charles Wesley Barnett, letters (2) written by Barnett, who was serving in the Persian Gulf War, to Michael Foster, a fourth grader of Bowling Green and his family, and an explanatory note from Connie L. Foster, Michael’s mother.


Goad, Kelly Parker (Sc 1139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Goad, Kelly Parker (Sc 1139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1139. Desert Storm letter from Kelly Parker Goad to his aunt, Pansy Page Allison and family, Ooltewah, Tennessee, describing living conditions at Saudi National Guard Compound; and letters from Allison providing biographical information about Goad.


Mccullough, Crystal - Letters To (Sc 1148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Mccullough, Crystal - Letters To (Sc 1148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1148. Desert Storm letters (8) and Christmas card written by three servicemen to Crystal McCullough, Tullahoma Tennessee, and photographs (2) of two of the men. Also included is an outgoing letter from McCullough to an unnamed serviceman and a letter of explanation about the letters (11).


Damron, Danny Lee (Sc 1133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Damron, Danny Lee (Sc 1133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1133. Letters and a postcard sent from Damron to Becky Spradlin of Nicholasville, Kentucky. Also included is a photo of Damron, a water bottle label with Arabic captions and a riyal bill from Saudi Arabia.


Calm Before The Storm: Gettysburg’S African-American Community Before The Battle, Brian D. Johnson Oct 2013

Calm Before The Storm: Gettysburg’S African-American Community Before The Battle, Brian D. Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

African-Americans have always been a part of Gettysburg’s community fabric. Slaves belonging to Samuel Gettys, the area’s first settler, arrived as early as 1762 to build one of the first local taverns. Samuel’s son James, who founded Gettysburg in 1786, also owned slaves, including Sydney O’Brien. After her owner’s death, O’Brien obtained her freedom, and in purchasing a small lot along South Washington Street helped establish the borough’s African-American neighborhood. The free black community continued to grow over the first decades of the nineteenth century as Pennsylvania’s policy of gradual emancipation effectively ended slavery in the state by the 1840s. …


Her Bright Blazon Forever Unstained, John M. Rudy Oct 2013

Her Bright Blazon Forever Unstained, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Just a few lyrics today, nothing more, nothing less. Lyrics of joy. Lyrics of home. Lyrics of who we are as a nation. Might we never forget who we are again. [excerpt]


Recollections Of The Sc 1474, Donald J. Smith Oct 2013

Recollections Of The Sc 1474, Donald J. Smith

Veterans History Project Personal Narratives

Recollections of the subchaser 1474 of Donald J. Smith, OM 1/C USNR. Twelve-page recollections typed from his personal account by his wife Muriel L. Smith.


Richard D. Dunphy And The Prices And Prizes Of War, Kevin P. Lavery Oct 2013

Richard D. Dunphy And The Prices And Prizes Of War, Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Like many immigrants during the mid-nineteenth century, Irishman Richard D. Dunphy served his new country in the Civil War, albeit not entirely willingly. The wounds he sustained during the war were grave, including the loss of both arms. He received some reward for his sacrifice from his country: a monthly pension, a Medal of Honor, and a notability lacked by other faceless coal heavers. As with other great conflicts, the war played a pivotal role in the lives of its participants, especially in the case of Richard Dunphy. [excerpt]


Richard D. Dunphy: A Veteran’S Struggle Echoing Into The Present, Kevin P. Lavery Oct 2013

Richard D. Dunphy: A Veteran’S Struggle Echoing Into The Present, Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

When I first received the bundle of Richard Dunphy’s pension documents, I was prepared to begin research on an obscure figure lost to time. To my great surprise, the very first search I performed resulted in a handful of genealogy websites, several citations of his merit, and even a Wikipedia page. As I began research, it became clear that this coal heaver was not one of the faceless many who fought in the American Civil War, but rather a man of the age whose life told a timeless story of hardship and resolve. [excerpt]


Headrick, Victor Delano, 1921-2010 (Sc 1122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Headrick, Victor Delano, 1921-2010 (Sc 1122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1122. Letter, 26 May 1945, from Headrick, a Monroe County, Kentucky native, to his sister Eva Ream, relating his World War II experiences as a transportation specialist in Europe. Includes genealogical data sheet.


Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1123. Postcard about a Bowling Green High School 1934 class meeting, 1937; newsletters (3), from the 87th Depot Repair Squadron, 1945; army ration card, 1945; miscellaneous papers related to Stamps’ release from the army, 1945; and a letter from a Moroccan friend, 1948.


A Life Cast Asunder: The Fate Of Sanford Pettibone, Bryan G. Caswell Oct 2013

A Life Cast Asunder: The Fate Of Sanford Pettibone, Bryan G. Caswell

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

As the American Civil War entered its fourth summer in 1864, both Union and Confederacy delved ever deeper into their remaining reserves of manpower. Legions of men continued to enter the armed forces of their nations, reinforcing drastically undermanned units as well as forming regiments of their own. One such regiment was the 133rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Organized at Camp Butler, Illinois in May of 1864 and mustered in for only one hundred days, the 133rd Illinois was stationed at the Rock Island Arsenal, where its men guarded Confederate prisoners of war. Here the 133rd would remain until its men’s …


“Wrecked Cars And Suffering Humanity”: The Fortunes Of The 33rd Illinois, Bryan G. Caswell Oct 2013

“Wrecked Cars And Suffering Humanity”: The Fortunes Of The 33rd Illinois, Bryan G. Caswell

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

The men of the 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry were out of their minds with boredom in the closing months of 1864. Those veterans who remained from the campaigns of the year before could recall the proud service of their regiment. Mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois in September of 1861, the 33rd has spent the first year of its war fighting minor skirmishes in the trans-Mississippi theater. Then, in the late fall of 1862, the 33rd Illinois was transferred to the First Brigade, First Division, XIII Corps of the Army of the Tennessee. [excerpt]


Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1119. Telegrams (7), 1971, to Susan E. Powell, Martin, Tennessee, informing her of her husband's war injuries and his well-being; telegram from husband Lt. William E. Powell, Jr., to Susan; and clipping expressing the couple's thanks to their friends for kindnesses shown them.


Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1120. Sermon notes and Spanish-American War discharge certificate of Simpson County, Kentucky native, Charles Potter Walton, who served as a Methodist minister in the south central Kentucky area. Several items related to the Spanish-American War can be viewed in full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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.


Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1181. Letter, 18 December [1862], written by Union soldier Charles Caley, stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his wife in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio. He discusses his illness, his arrival in Bowling Green Green from Louisville with six hundred troops, and their encampment in an old sawmill.


2013 Annual Dinner Program, The O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross Oct 2013

2013 Annual Dinner Program, The O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Annual Dinner Program

Thirteenth in a series of speaker events sponsored by the O'Callahan Society at its annual dinner. The keynote speaker is Vice Admiral Barry Costello USN (Ret.) '73.


Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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.


Tales From A Boston Customs House: Lewis Augustine Horton, S. Marianne Johnson Oct 2013

Tales From A Boston Customs House: Lewis Augustine Horton, S. Marianne Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

One morning as he was preparing the morning paper, Boston-based Washington dispatch examiner Joseph O’Hare’s eye caught a dispatch noting the Congressional Medal of Honor was being awarded to a Lewis Horton for courageous acts while rescuing crew members of the U.S.S. Monitor off the coast of Cape Hatteras in 1862. O’Hare was particularly struck by the name of the man, since a double arm amputee veteran named Lewis Augustine Horton worked at the local customs house. O’Hare related the dispatch to Horton, noting the similar name, to which Horton reportedly responded in genuine surprise, “By Jove! It may be …


164th Infantry News: October 2013, 164th Infantry Association Oct 2013

164th Infantry News: October 2013, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

October 2013 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of 56 pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.


Kington, Donald Mason, B. 1928 (Mss 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Kington, Donald Mason, B. 1928 (Mss 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 475. Typewritten draft, with corrections, of Donald M. Kington’s book Forgotten Summers: The Story of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, 1921-1940. The book chronicles the one-month-long camps run every summer by the U.S. Army to give young volunteers the experience of soldiering. The book was published in 1995.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


What They Left Behind: Reclaiming The Unknown History Of World War Ii, Melissa Patricio Oct 2013

What They Left Behind: Reclaiming The Unknown History Of World War Ii, Melissa Patricio

World War II – Related Research Projects

From 2011 to 2013 RWU student Thanasi Metropoulos interviewed fifteen WW II veterans living in the East Bay. Melissa Patricio's article in RWU Magazine provides more information about Thanasi's project and some of the veterans he interviewed.