Scope and Content Note Notebook, transcribed by Stuart G. Vogt, 1975, of Charles William Fry (1842-1922), containing lists of personnel, military expenditures, inventories of ordinance, and copied quotations. Includes biographical note. Positive photocopy. Positive photocopy of a transcription of a notebook kept by Captain Charles William Fry, Fry's Company of Virginia Light Artillery (Orange Artillery). Captain Fry took part in many fights in Virginia during the war and kept a record of ordinance...

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Journal of Expedition to Texas, 1846.

Typescript of diary of John P. Gaines (1795- 1857), First Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, from camp near Memphis, TN, 16 July 1846, through Arkansas and Texas to the Rio Grande River, 20 October 1846. Positive photocopy.

Scope and Content Note All the correspondence in the collection is addressed to Robert West in Cincinnati, Ohio, an undetermined relation of Richard Huber. One letter, dated December 21, 1942, was written by Private Elmer Floyd Kroger, stationed with the 684th BFTS at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. The...

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of fourteen (out of a series of eighteen) albums/scrapbooks numbered 4 through 17 and 17 A. The first three volumes, devoted primarily to family and personal photos covering four generations of the Ware and Clark families, and volume 12, are not part of this collection. Albums 4 through 11 contain photographs from Ware's army life, international assignments, and travels during 1944 to 1971. Scrapbooks 13 to 17 and 17 A contain promotional materials, publicity, and...