United States. Army
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Summers Rowan (1857-1943) Papers and Memorabilia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1780
Overview
Burial flag, cord, pictures, and correspondence, 1963-1964, concerning disposition of these items. There is a resume of Rowan's life after 1922 and information on his military service, which included a mission in Cuba prior to the Spanish-American War, which was glorified in Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia. There is a resume of Rowan's life, most notably his U.S. Army career, 1881-1909. An 1881 graduate of West Point, he served on the frontier against Indians...
Dates:
ca. 1940-1960
Dr. William H. Waddell, Veterinarian and Author, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0300
Overview
Correspondence, book reviews, certificates and pictures of Waddell, a pioneering black veterinarian and author. His books (People Are The Funniest Animals, The Black Man in Veterinary Medicine, Universal Veterinarianism, and Historical Facts of the Black Veterinarian) document the little known contributions of African-Americans from antebellum times to the...
Dates:
1938-1987
Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview
Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates:
1838-1899
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- Railroads 2
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- California 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Chile 1
- Civil War - United States 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Mine Run. 1
- Civil War battles - The Wilderness. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Cuba 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Grafton. 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Latin America 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- North Dakota 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Philippines 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - International Railway Survey Central and South America. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Washington Territory 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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