MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
3-3-2009
Abstract
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1859. Correspondence and documents related to the Union army service of William E. Hobson during the Civil War, including requests for leaves of absence (one to return to his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky to assist in prosecuting local “rebel scoundrels”), recommendations for his promotion to Brigadier General, and his military discharge certificate; deeds related to land owned by William’s great-uncle Jonathan Hobson; will of Jonathan Hobson freeing his slaves; and receipts for the purchase of materials for the construction of William’s father Atwood G. Hobson’s home, Riverview, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Disciplines
History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Hobson Family Papers (SC 1859)" (2009). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 806.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/806
SC 1859 Civil War pass.pdf (107 kB)
SC 1859 William E. Hobson.pdf (3964 kB)
SC 1859 A. G. Hobson.pdf (533 kB)
SC 1859 Tax receipts.pdf (179 kB)
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434.