Neither Northern nor Southern

Centre College During the
Antebellum Era and the Civil War

By Laura Garrett

Sources
Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3 | Panel 4 | Sources
Panel 1
Neither Northern nor Southern
  • Brown, Richard C. A History of Danville and Boyle County, Kentucky, 1774-1992. Danville, KY: Bicentennial Books, 1992.
  • Kleber, John E. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
  • Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: the Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
  • Thompson, Jen. "A Town Like Any Other: Danville, Kentucky during the Civil War." Unpublished paper written for History 1632: The Confederacy, Prof. William Gienapp (Harvard University, 16 May 2000).
Centre and Abraham Lincoln
  • Centre College Communications Office. "Centre Grad Changed Lincoln's Life," Centre.edu, 18 July 2001, http://www.centre.edu/web/news/2001/lincoln.html.
  • Clark, Thomas D. The Kentucky Influence on the Life of Abraham Lincoln. Address at Annual Meeting, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, Madison, February 13, 1961.
  • Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln on Lincoln, ed. Paul M. Zall. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Panel 2
Slaves at Centre
  • "Ledger of J. Chamberlain." Centre College Sepcial Collections CC-13.3A, Folder 2.
  • "Financial Transactions of J. Chamberlain." Centre College Special Collections CC-13.3D, Folder 14, page 3.
  • "Centre College Board of Trustees Minutes, 17 July 1828." Centre College Digital Archives, http://library.centre.edu/sc/minutes/bt_2.pdf.
  • "Centre College Board of Trustees Minutes, 28 July 1847." Centre College Digital Archives, http://library.centre.edu/sc/minutes/bt_2.pdf.
  • "Centre College Board of Trustees Minutes, 13 January 1848." Centre College Digital Archives, http://library.centre.edu/sc/minutes/bt_2.pdf.
  • "Note of John ###." Centre College Special Collections, CC 13.3 C Folder 1.
  • "Uknown Financial Ledger, 1835." Centre College Special Collections, CC-13.3D, Folder 14, page 3.
Life of Harrison Wickliffe
  • Jim Randsell, "Will Work for Food," unpublished paper written for History 462: Slavery, Memory, and the College, Prof. Robert Murray (Centre College, January 2012).
  • "A two-story frame dwelling," Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, (Stanford, KY: 18 December 1884) p. 2, Kentucky Virtual Library.
  • U.S. Federal Census Population Schedules and Slave Schedules accessed through Ancestry.com: U.S. Census of 1850, Population Schedule for District 2, Boyle, Kentucky, National Archives microfilm M432, roll 192, page 379A; U.S. Census of 1850, Slave Schedule, National Archives microfilm M432, Young household; U.S. Census of 1860, Population Schedule for Danville, Boyle, Kentucky, National Archives microfilm M653, roll 356; U.S. Census of 1870, Population Schedule for Danville, Boyle, Kentucky, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 448; U.S. Census of 1880, Population Schedule for Danville, Boyle, Kentucky, National Archives microfilm roll 404; U.S. Census of 1900, Population Schedule for Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, National Archives microfilm roll 249.
  • Other Sources accessed through Ancestry.com: Kentucky Birth Records, 1852-1910, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives microfilm rolls 994027-994058, (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com: 2007); U.S. City Directiories, 1821-1989 (Provot, UT: Ancestry.com:2011); U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com: 2009); National Archives and Records Administration, U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com: 2000); National Archives and Records Administration, Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry, Microfilm Serial: M1801, roll 15.
  • Sources accessed through Centre College Special Collections: "Centre College Board of Trustee's Minutes, 24 September 1840," Centre College Digital Archives; "D.H. Rupel Financial Ledger, September 1845" CC-13.3D, Folder 13, page 3; "Treasurer's Account, June 1852," CC-13.3D, Folder 13, page 2; "D.A. Rupel Report," CC-13.3D, Folder 18, page 2; "Treasurer's Report Presented to Presbyterian Synod, 1856," Centre College Digital Archives, "Centre College Financial Ledger, 1857," CC-13.3E, Vol. 1, page 39; "Treasurer's Report Presented to Presbyterian Synod, 1859," Centre College Digital Archives; "Treasurer's Report Presented to Presbyterian Synod, 1860," Centre College Digital Archives; "Treasurer's Report Presented to Presbyterian Synod, 1861," Centre College Digital Archives; "Treasurer's Report Presented to Presbyterian Synod, 1862," Centre College Digital Archives; "Excerpts and Notes from the Olive Branch of 1825," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY: 7 January 1893) p. 3.
Faculty Opinions on Slavery
  • Breckinridge, Robert J. "A Biographical Sketch of the Rev. John C. Young, D. D., Late President of Centre College," Danville Quarterly Review 4:1 (March 1864) 151-166.
  • Hopkins, James F. A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1951.
Panel 3
Centre Support for the Union and the Confederacy
  • "Agore Adelphon Literary Society Minutes, 1855-1858." Centre College Digital Archives.
  • Bodner, Jr., Arthur P. Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1854-1954: A History. Danville, KY: 1954. Centre College Digital Archives.
  • Breckinridge, Robert J. "A Biographical Sketch of the Rev. John C. Young, D. D., Late President of Centre College," Danville Quarterly Review 4:1 (March 1864) 151-166.
  • Burnett, Brittany. Unpublished paper written for History 462: Slavery, Memory, and the College, Prof. Robert Murray (Centre College, January 2012).
  • Chaplain Joseph Cross quoted in Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
  • Elsea, Chris. "Centre College During the Civil War, 1861-1865." Unpublished paper for History 40c, Dr. Lee (Centre College).
Panel 4
The Battle of Perryville at Centre
  • Cheek, Christen Ashby, ed. "Memoirs of Mrs. E. B. Patterson: A Perspective on Danville During the Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 92 (1994) 347-399.
  • Elsea, Chris. "Centre College During the Civil War, 1861-1865." Unpublished paper for History 40c, Dr. Lee (Centre College).
  • Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
  • Sanders, Stuart. The Cost of War: Centre College and the Battle of Perryville, http://library.centre.edu/sc/special/perryville/index.htm.
  • Thompson, Jen. "A Town Like Any Other: Danville, Kentucky during the Civil War." Unpublished paper written for History 1632: The Confederacy, Prof. William Gienapp (Harvard University, 16 May 2000).
 
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