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
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
Okey P. Keadle, Soldier, World War I Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2960
Overview
Letters from Okey P. Keadle (1894-1958) to his family in Williamson, West Virginia, written while he served with the first American army regiment on active duty in France during World War I. Keadle was stationed in Paris and Tours, serving as a clerk. Subjects include his reaction to French customs, wartime civilian life in Paris, celebrations held by the American troops, and fashions and popular entertainers of the day.
Dates:
1919-1927
William Emory Paul World War I Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0834
Overview
The letters, diary, and service related documents of William Emory Paul, a Captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps, who served with the 327th Inf. Reg., 82nd Div. A.E.F. in France during World War I. Most of the documents are supply forms, regulations, and his service records and identification papers. The diary records his time spent at the front working in medical aide stations during the Meuse-Argonne campaign, for which he received promotion to Major. The letters are to his parents or to...
Dates:
1917-1919
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- France 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Soldiers' letters 2
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Burning Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Camp Gordon (DeKalb County, Ga.) 1
- Civil War - WV 11th. Inf. 1
- Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
- Germany 1
- Kentucky 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Paris (France) 1
- Photography 1
- Soldiers' letters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Teachers 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Weather 1
- Williamson (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Logan County (W. Va.) -- Soldiers 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Military training camps 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
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