Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

3-3-2009

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

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

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