Military veterans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
C. W. Ford, 3rd Indiana Cavalry collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2605
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two folders. The first folder has 2 items: a typed roster of the enlisted men and officers of Company H, 3rd Indiana Cavalry and a ledger from reunion meetings held after the U.S. Civil War for Company H. The ledger contains attendance records (which includes the location of living members and notations when members died), meeting minutes and newspaper clippings about the reunions. The reunions were held annually on September 10th from 1890 until 1933. The...
Dates:
1862-1933
Caleb H. Stone collection
Collection — Folder S1255
Identifier: S1255
Scope and Contents
This collection contains military documents and letters pertaining to Caleb Hall Stone ranging from 1847 to 1917 regarding his service in the U.S.-Mexican War, which include an offical document appointing Stone as captain of the "Rough and Ready Guards" of the 4th Indiana Regiment dated May 29, 1847; two muster rolls from Captain Daniel Lunderman for Company G, 4th Indiana Regiment dated June and August 30-October 31, 1847; letters and envelopes ranging from 1881 to 1884; and documents...
Dates:
1847-1917
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Caleb H. Stone collection
Carl A. Zenor Civil War collection
Collection — Folder S1957
Identifier: S1957
Scope and Contents
This collection contains American Civil War documents collected by Carl A. Zenor ranging from 1862 to 1963 and includes an incomplete copy of the Touch the Elbow Songster (1862); a typewritten transcript of a letter sent to Francis M. Busby of Lebanon, Indiana from Edward Reynolds at the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division near Atlanta, Georgia (July 31, 1864); a photocopy of an army pass granted to Busby to travel to Alabama and signed by Governor...
Dates:
1862-1963
Civil War collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1512
Scope and Contents
This collection includes various badges (ribbons) from regimental reunions and veterans organizations' meetings, such as the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corps (WRC),in Indiana ranging from 1877 to 1921. There is also a postcard to John A. Cottman from William W. Dudley in Richmond, Indiana on June 20, 1873 regarding badges of the "Iron Brigade," which included the 19th Indiana Regiment. "3 bound volumes containing photo-offset copies of original...
Dates:
1873-1921
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Civil War collection
Civil War pension claim book
Collection — Volume 270
Identifier: V270
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a record book used to document information ranging from 1887 to 1891 regarding pension claims in Clark County, Indiana. Most claims are identified with either Maring and Slusher or Maring, Slusher and Company, but a few note Evans, Jewel and Company as the claimant's representative. A number of the claims are for soldiers who had served in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois regiments. There are more than 30 claims by African-American soldiers and widows regarding...
Dates:
1887-1891
Claude Douglass Funk collection
Collection
Identifier: L271
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, papers, financial documents, reunion programs, reports, a roster, a pamphlet, certificates, and photographs from Charles D. Funk and Ralph W. Wick in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1907 to 1971 and undated, largely regarding the Third Battery Field Artillery, Second Officers' Training Camp from World War I.
There is also two certificates from Ralph W. Wick (1907-1917) and a map of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 1918 (OBE016).
There is also two certificates from Ralph W. Wick (1907-1917) and a map of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 1918 (OBE016).
Dates:
1909-1971, undated
Dan Ewing collection
Collection — Folder S2179
Identifier: S2179
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of "71 Years after Enlisting - Still Assisting; Indiana State Library Volunteer on Honor Flight," an article written by Georgean C. Johnson-Coffey about Dan Ewing and printed in the May 17, 2017 edition of the Indiana State Library weekly Wednesday Word e-newsletter. The article relates information about his volunteer work with the Talking Book Repair Program and his participation in the 23rd Honor Flight to Washington,...
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dan Ewing collection
Dandridge E. Kelsey diaries
Collection — Folder S3035
Identifier: S3035
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photocopies of pages 1 to 211 and pages 932 and 933 from transcirpts of diaries from Dandridge Eliphant Kelsey in Dearborn County, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1853 to 1867, regarding his daily life, family, church and social activities, elections, travel, and military service during the U.S. Civil War. The transcripts were created by Gayle Harman Kelsey and concern the part of his diaries from when he and his family lived in Indiana. A child’s...
Dates:
1853-1867, 1982
David Henry Harrison Shewmaker collection
Collection — Folder S1175
Identifier: S1175
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of a 24-page pamphlet published in 1904 of the address, "What War Has Done" by D.H.H. Shewmaker, that he gave at the eighth annual reunion of the Delaware County Veterans. In his address, Shewmaker discusses the American Civil War and other historic wars that influenced nations and the individuals involved. This collection also includes a one-page handwritten biography of Shewmaker circa 1967.
Dates:
1904-1967
David McCormick, Indiana Department of Conservation permit
Collection — Folder S3178
Identifier: S3178
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one free permit to hunt, fish, and trap without a license issued to David J. McCormick, dated July 21, 1928, by the Indiana Department of Conservation, Division of Fish and Game. This special free permit, "issued only to honorably discharged ex-service men residents of Indiana" was issued to the 79-year-old McCormick as a discharged veteran of the Spanish-American War.
Dates:
1928/07/31
