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Full-Text Articles in Military History
Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1745. Letter, 10 March 1862, from John E. Lane, serving with the 17th Ohio in Nashville, Tennessee, to an unnamed uncle describing skirmishes near Somerset, Kentucky and his regiment's meandering progress from Ohio to Nashville.
Cochran, Robert Gilmore, 1919-1971 (Sc 1724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cochran, Robert Gilmore, 1919-1971 (Sc 1724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1724. Chiefly correspondence with the U.S. Army and Robert Gilmore Cochran's attorney related to his mother's eligibility to receive an allotment check while he was serving in the military. Also, correspondence related to Cochran's National Guard responsibilities in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1708. Post cards, Christmas card, and telegram from Thomas Neal McGown, serving with the U.S. Marine Corps, to his wife Marguerite, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes other items and news clippings related to his World War II service.
Felts, Archibald, 1758-1825 (Sc 1699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Felts, Archibald, 1758-1825 (Sc 1699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1699. Typescripts of Felts's 1817 will, 1825 estate inventory, and family Bible records. A scanned copy of the Felts family Bible record as well as the supporting material for his pension petition can be accessed by clicking on the "Additional Files" links. Also includes an article about Felts's grandson Daniel Boler, who became an elder of the Mount Lebanon, New York Shaker community.
Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 196. Letters sent to Stone and his mother, Nelle Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II from friends in armed service around the world. Includes letters, holiday greeting cards, telegrams, V-mail and postcards. Almost all correspondents were members of a local fraternal club known as the Senators which was composed of graduates of Bowling Green High School.
Bingham, Charles Edward, 1944-1997 (Sc 1672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bingham, Charles Edward, 1944-1997 (Sc 1672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1672. Journal, notes, and scrapbook kept by Butler County, Kentucky native Charles Edward Bingham pertaining to his military service in Vietnam in 1968.
Duncan-Ponvert, Annie Franchot, 2001-2004 (Mss 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan-Ponvert, Annie Franchot, 2001-2004 (Mss 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 218. Duncan-Ponvert's thesis "The Stories of Eleven Who Served in World War II from Lewisburg, Kentucky" and the cassette tapes of the interviews she conducted as part of the research.
Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1668. Letters from William Barnett Howard, serving with the 3rd Kentucky Regiment (C.S.A.) in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi to his family in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. He provides a private's observations of daily camp life. Includes correspondence related to the letters and associated data.
Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1657. Letters from Gilbert "Randy" Boyd, Jr., serving as a Chief Warrant Officer in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, to his wife Reba in Bowling Green. He comments on his fellow soldiers, the beginning of the war and a trip to Kuwait.
Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1655. Letters written by Gerald Wayne Mayberry to "Lula" and "Sally," Franklin, Kentucky, while Mayberry was serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam.
Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 222. Correspondence of the Pearson family, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters from Carroll Pearson to his wife Patricia while he is in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The collection also contains letters sent to Carroll from his parents and letters sent to Patricia from her parents and friends.
Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1643. Template for the use of municipal governments in adopting a Civil Defense ordinance in Kentucky during World War II.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1626. Copies of letters exchanged in an attempt to identify four Confederate soldiers killed in Hopkins County, Kentucky in 1865 and interred in an unmarked grave in the Madisonville Odd Fellows Cemetery in Hopkins County.
Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1639. Letters sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky native Eva Mae Stone by cousins George and Charles Shanks and friend John Mullins who were serving in the armed forces during World War II. Includes photograph of Mullins in uniform standing before the U.S. Capitol.
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1617. Civil War reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty, Harrison County, Kentucky, recounted in 1905 to his son W.T. Lafferty. John A. Lafferty served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and later with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. W.T. Lafferty adds an account of his family's lives as Confederate sympathizers in Harrison County during the war.
Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1605. Military records of Union soldier Grider who served as a staff officer with the 9th Kentucky Infantry and the 52nd Kentucky Infantry. Also, documents relating to pension requests made by Grider and his widow, Kittie A. Grider.
Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 11. List of volunteers to serve under Isaac Shelby in the War of 1812 in the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky militia from Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Colonel George Hudspeth, Commandant, 25th Regiment Kentucky Militia (R.K.M.)
Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1573. Letter dated 21 January 1862, written by H. H. Downing, serving with the Union army near Somerset, Kentucky, to his brother and sisters. He relates events concerning the fighting around Somerset and the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer, and sends a piece of Zollicoffer's coat as a souvenir.
Maschak, Jay (Sc 1577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maschak, Jay (Sc 1577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1577. Letter and postcard from Jay Maschak, Saudia Arabia, to Kelly Butler, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, during the Persian Gulf War. Maschak was in the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division. Includes a news clipping about the correspondence.
Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1583. Letters, photos, and newspaper clippings documenting Moss's U.S. Navy career. Includes news clipping related to educator, Mary Dishman, and a news clipping about Moss's father John McKenzie Moss.
Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1579. World War II letters from Kentucky native Claude M. Brown, stationed in Italy, to Elizabeth Propes, Louisville and Hodgenville, Kentucky. Letters to Brown from friend Ralph Hurley and Brown's 1945 travel itinerary from Italy to Kentucky.
Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1578. Marriage license of William McNear and his wife Emily (Harmon) McNear; letter from George W. Craven, commander of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Union) notifying Emily of McNear's 1864 death; her widow's application for a U.S. Army pension.
Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1564. Two letters to George Jones from Merlin (last name not given) describing life at Camp Taylor, a World War I training facility in Louisville, Kentucky. Includes a photo of Jones in uniform.
Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of diary (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1561. Civil War diary, 1861-1864, of Robert Allen Dearmin. He served with the 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, which saw service in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Also includes correspondence of the Dearmin and Lowry families. Associated data about the collection included.
Winters, Erastus, 1843-1925 (Sc 1553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winters, Erastus, 1843-1925 (Sc 1553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1553. Letter, 17 April 1863, from Erastus Winters, serving with the Union Army at Sulphur Fork Trestle, Kentucky (Fort Sands, Hardin County) to his sister Phebe. He briefly describes his military duties and asks her to send a photograph.
Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 1531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 1531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1531. Correspondence, chiefly e-mails, between Christopher Larry Davis, stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and family and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Tinsley, Warren Landrum, 1922-1987 (Sc 1549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tinsley, Warren Landrum, 1922-1987 (Sc 1549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1549. A typescripted reminiscence about Warren Landrum Tinsley's World War II experiences in the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a typescript of a diary kept during his military service , and a typescripted reminiscence about his early church experiences in Logan County, Kentucky.
Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 31. Manuscripts, letters, writings, etc., of the Thomas family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, including sermons and speeches of Frank Morehead Thomas, Methodist minister (1868-1921); and poems, essays and newspaper articles written by his mother, Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas (1842-1931). Full-text scans are available (Click on "Additional Files" below) for the Spanish-American War letters that Frank Thomas sent home to his family.
Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Mss 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Mss 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 27. Correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., covering Bowling Green native Victor Herbert Strahm's U.S. Air Force career. There are over 100 letters written to his parents in Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing his World War I activities and 27 letters to his mother detailing his participation in the early days of World War II.
Settle, Margery Lucille, 1899-1980 (Mss 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle, Margery Lucille, 1899-1980 (Mss 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 7. Letters written by various armed forces personnel during World War I (7 items), World War II (77), and police duty afterward (6). The letters were written to Margery Lucille Settle, a secondary teacher and administrator in the McLean County and Daviess County, Kentucky school systems.