United States. Army

Overview Mainly letters written to Bassel from U.S. Army officers from various forts and camps in several western states and territories. There are no copies of Bassel's correspondence in the collection, but his career in the army to about 1870, his subsequent military service in Egypt, and his employment in China and Japan, ca.1874-1875, as the representative of an American ship builder, are covered in the letters. There are a few letters from Thomas Handbury, a cadet at West Point in 1862; also...

Overview One of the copies of the surrender document of Japanese garrisons on Aka Shima and Tokashiki Shima to U.S. forces on Zamani Shima, all islands being a part of the Kerama Retto group near Okinawa. These were the first two Japanese garrisons to formally surrender after the Japanese imperial announcement of capitulation to the Allies in World War II. Their surrender was managed and accepted by the U.S. commander, a West Virginian, Julian G. Hearne, in command of the 24th Infantry Regiment, the...