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Wagoner, Lloyd Henry, 1891-1967 (Sc 2191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2191. Letter, 14 May 1918 from Lloyd H. Wagoner, Walbridge, Ohio, to his parents, written from Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He writes of his travel to camp, his inoculation and processing for military service, and of seeing “flying machines,” probably at Wilbur Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, while en route.

Hale, Toby Alexander, B. 1958 (Sc 1992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1992. E-mail correspondence between Toby Alexander Hale, a Wisconsin native, and his wife during Hale's U.S. Army service in the Iraq War. They discuss his work training Iraqi soldiers, his study of Arabic, mail delivery, his promotion, and family news. Inlcudes photos of Hale's barracks and surrounding area and biographical details on Hale and his wife.

Ellis, Clay Hunt, B. 1977 (Sc 1991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1991. Photos of Clay Hunt Ellis taken during his service with the U.S. Marines during the Iraq War. Includes e-mail correspondence from his wife, Stacy Edds-Ellis, giving background information on photos and discussing future donations.

Over Here, Over There (Fa 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 480. Collection contains recorded interviews and transcriptions conducted by David Baxter and Laura Harper Lee. The interviews contain information about the war effort at home and, for those who served, their experiences with the military and their combat experiences specifically.

Ratchford, Paul, B. 1966 (Sc 1989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1989. CD containing images taken by Paul Ratchford and fellow soldiers during the early days of Iraq War. Includes background e-mail correspondence and thumbnail printouts of images.

Buchanan, Robert, B. 1962 (Sc 1988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

E-mail correspondence between Robert Buchanan, a retired Air Force captain, and his son Jake during the latter's service in Iraq. They express their feelings about military service, their relationship, and readjustment to family life; Buchanan also provides some personal history. Includes photos of both men and family members.

Agee, Miranda R. (Sc 1987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1987. E-mail correspondence of Miranda R. Agee giving details of her husband's service in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division Band.

Smith, Daniel William, B. 1962 (Sc 1985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1985. Letters, clippings and military newsletters relating to Daniel William Smith's service in the Iraq War. Includes Smith's thanks to schoolchildren for gifts, clippings about an injured comrade, and copies of "Tiger OIF III Gazette."

Wku Veterans History Project (Mss 278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 278. Biographical data sheets and video interviews with U.S. war veterans in western Kentucky as part of the Veterans History Project, created by Congress in 2000. Dr. Gary L. Villereal, regional project coordinator.

Landers, Theodore R., 1903-1922 (Sc 2174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2174. Bowling Green, Kentucky native Theodore R. Landers's honorable discharge from the U.S. Army 5 August 1921.

Geralds, Bettie Mae (Miller), 1897-1992 (Sc 2182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") of letters written to Bettie Mae Geralds in Louisville, Kentucky, from family members and friends in Kentucky as well as in Omaha, Nebraska, and Bloomington and Evansville, Indiana. Topics include family news, fruit and vegetable canning, and difficulties finding work. Geralds’ son writes of his prosecution at Fort Knox for an offense committed while on military duty. Includes a 1967 letter from a Navy serviceman in Texas.

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2149. Letter from Robert Edward Lee to Colonel Robert P. Blount, Provost Marshal at Guiney Depot [Guiney's Station], Virginia. Lee instructs him to hold the position, declines to provide artillery support, and refers to the transportation of prisoners. Includes copies of Confederate postage stamps and currency. Poor quality photostatic copy.

The Experience Of The 756th Tank Battalion In World War Two: A Microcosm, Scott Millenbach

Senior Theses

December 7, 1941, "a day which will live in infamy," was the moment that the United States was plunged into the largest conflict that the world had ever seen. The sovereignty of the United States was being threatened at two ends of the globe by tyrannical leaders on the continent of Europe and the islands of the Pacific. In the years to come, the U.S. would have to fight to stop the spread of Emperor Hirohito's army in the Pacific and Hitler's Nazi Wermacht in Europe. It would take all the resources our mighty country could muster and the fighting …

The Battle Of Murten: The Invasion Of Charles The Bold And The Survival Of The Swiss States, Albert Winkler

Faculty Publications

When Charles the Bold of Burgundy tried to create a new kingdom between France and the German Empire, he decided to conquer the Swiss states. His aggression started the Burgundian Wars from 1474 to 1477. Charles besieged the fortress of Grandson early in 1476. When the Swiss garrison surrendered, Charles had all four hundred of the defenders hanged. In the Battle of Grandson, the Swiss drove the Burgundian Army away, but Charles soon invaded again. This time he besieged the fortress of Murten, and the Swiss rallied all their forces to attack him. In the subsequent battle, the Swiss infantry …

A Historical Look At The Av-8 Harrier Program, Bill O'Hara

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Hear the inside story of one of the most controversial airplanes ever introduced to Naval Aviation, as told by a Marine pilot with more than 3,000 hours in the Harrier. Bill (Prof) O’Hara, was also the real pilot in the movie “True Lies” with Arnold Schwarzenegger!

Mayes Family Papers (Sc 2153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2153. Miscellaneous materials, primarily deeds and recording clerks' certificates, relating to the Mayes family of Barren County, Kentucky and associated families. Includes Memorial Day gravesite photo and 1903 school program. Also includes Civil War soldier's letter written from Davidson County, Tennessee, 16 March 1862 (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2145. Three letters regarding the Civil War pension of Ansel Wilson, Grayson County, Kentucky, who served with the 17th Kentucky Infantry (Union).

Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2148. Letters (2) written to George A Brown, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, from two friends serving overseas during World War II; one was in Germany and the other was in the Pacific.

Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2133. Certificates appointing Levi A. Moore, of Warren County, Kentucky, a corporal in Company K, 52nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and discharging Moore from service.

Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 242. Letters to John Dudley Cosby, Muhlenberg County, and his family, from other family members in Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi. Includes genealogical data, some of Cosby's personal papers, and his estate inventory.

"The Last Full Measure Of Devotion": The Battle Of Gettysburg And The New Museum In Schmucker Hall, Bradley R. Hoch, Gerald Christianson

Adams County History

Schmucker Hall offers an unprecedented opportunity to interpret the role of religion in the Civil War and the American expenment in democracy. In particular it can give palpable expression to major themes in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address concerning the battle itself, the conflict as a time of testing, the sacrifices of those who fought here, and the hope these sacrifices bring to the young nation for a new birth of freedom.

Built in 1832 and named for an abolitionist and founder of Gettysburg Seminary, Samuel Simon Schmucker, it is the original structure on the oldest continuously-operating Lutheran seminary in the …

Ua60/3/1 Applied Arts & Health Military Science Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by the department of Military Science.

Ua60/3/2 Applied Arts & Health Military Science Correspondence, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Correspondence regarding the administration and activities of the WKU Military Science department.

Ua94/6/5 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Edgar Stansbury, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Edgar Stansbury.

“Bloody Outrages Of A Most Barbarous Enemy:” The Cultural Implications Of The Massacre At Fort William Henry, Colin Walfield

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

The August 10, 1757 massacre at Fort William Henry contradicted eighteenth-century European standards for warfare. Although British colonial opinion blamed it on Native American depravity, France‘s Native American allies acted within their own cultural parameters. Whereas the French and their British enemies believed in the supremacy of the state as the model for conduct, Native Americans defined their political and military relations on a personal level that emphasized mutual obligations. With the fort‘s surrender, however, the French and British attempted and failed to bring European cultural norms into the American wilderness. While the French triumphed in Fort William Henry‘s capitulation, …

The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire And The Composite Bow, Nathan Lanan

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century. However, when Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq visited Constantinople from 1554 to 1562, gunpowder was not used by the Sipahi cavalry who stubbornly, it seems, insisted on continuing to use the composite bow that the Turks had been using for centuries. This continued, despite their fear of European cavalry who used “small muskets” against them on raids. Was this a good idea? Was the composite bow a match or contemporary handheld firearms? Were …

Ua1c11/21 Edgar Stansbury Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photograph collection compiled by Edgar Stansbury during his time as a student, assistant coach and his military career.

Adams County History 2010

Adams County History

No abstract provided.

The First Battle Of Gettysburg: April 22, 1861, Timothy H. Smith

Adams County History

The fears of invasion voiced by the residents of south-central Pennsylvania prior to the Gettysburg Campaign are often the subject of ridicule in books and articles written on the battle. But to appreciate the events that occurred during the summer of 1863, it is necessary to understand how the citizens were affected by the constant rumors of invasion during the first two years of the war. And although there were many such scares prior to the battle, nothing reached the level of anxiety that was felt during the first few days of the war. On Monday morning, April 15, 1861, …

Field Marshal Harold Alexander: A Selected And Annotated Bibliography, Bradley Tolppanen

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.