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Photocopies of letters from Sgt. Frederick W. Bush, Co. E, 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army, to his cousin, Emily Shoppack of Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Written between May, 1861 and June, 1863 and describing Bush's war experiences, the letters are dated from Benton, Arkansas and from near Lynchburg and Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Wartrace and Manchester, Tennessee.

Scope and Content Note The bulk of Hudson's research papers on military aviation history, including the drafts of his second book, have been donated to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The materials remaining in this collection represent a selection of documents pertaining to Hudson's career as a scholar and historian; teaching materials used by Hudson while conducting classes at the University of Arkansas, including a selection of student papers written by participants in...

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Typewritten manuscript, together with printer's proof, of James Jackson Hudson's Hostile Skies, A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I (Syracuse University Press, 1968), together with four maps and 43 positive prints of photographs used to illustrate the book.