United States. Army
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Earl Ray Zinn Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3040
Overview
Correspondence, photos, postcards and memorabilia of a school teacher of White Days Creek and of his wife, Mary Corrothers Zinn. Most of the collection consists of correspondence and photos of Zinn's career in the U. S. Army during World War I. Zinn worked as a math school teacher and as a census taker in the Fetterman District of Taylor County. He spent the war in training at Camp Knox, West Point, KY in Battery E., 70th. Field Artillery Brigade, and he discusses in the letters the daily...
Dates:
1910-1975
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
Louis Reed and Mildred Johnston Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2592
Overview
Louis Reed (1899-ca. 1985) served in France and Germany during World War I. Collection contains letters he wrote to his future wife, Mildred Johnston. Reed and Johnston married many years later, after the death of Reed's first wife. Reed's letters, written between 1918 and 1920, discuss army life, the front in France, and the occupation of Germany. Collection also contains a 235-page photocopied typescript that Reed wrote about the history of Burning Springs, Wirt County, and its role in the...
Dates:
1918-1920 and undated
Vernon K. Deal Papers and Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0326
Overview
The discharge papers of an American soldier who served in the Philippines during the insurrection. Also includes a published diary by one of the officers of his unit, George F. Collins, about life on ship and port calls to and from their tour of duty.
Dates:
1899-1901
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Burning Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- California 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Civil War - United States 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - WV 11th. Inf. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 4th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
- Civil War battles - Mine Run. 1
- Civil War battles - The Wilderness. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- France 1
- Germany 1
- Grafton. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kentucky 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Philippines 1
- Photography 1
- Politics and government. 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
- Soldiers' letters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Teachers 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Washington Territory 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
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