United States. Army
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
James Bassel Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0327
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...
Dates:
1862-1892
Ken Hechler Interview Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1164
Overview
Transcription of an oral history interview by Niel M. Johnson of the Harry S. Truman Library with Ken Hechler. Hechler, born 1914 in Roslyn, NY, received A.B., Swarthmore 1935; M.A., Columbia 1936; Ph.D., Columbia 1940 in Political Science which he later taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Marshall Universities. He served as a U. S. Army combat historian in Europe during World War II. Hechler was a research assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was special assistant to President...
Dates:
1985
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- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
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- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
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- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- China 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
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Egypt 1
- Election of 1892. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fortification 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Japan 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Shipping 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
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