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Soldiers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

B. J. Warden Battle of Gettysburg personal narrative

 Collection — Folder S1361
Identifier: S1361
Scope and Contents The collection contains one document on three full sheets and one half sheet of green paper detailing B. J. Warden’s experience at the Battle of Gettysburg during the U.S. Civil War, July 1-4, 1863.July 1, 1863 B. J. Warden was in the 4th Brigade under John R. Brook, 1st Division, 2nd Corps. The men came from Centerville across the Potomac River. He was not in the first day’s fighting, on July 1, because they stopped for muster so payrolls could be made out. They arrived in...
Dates: 1863/07/01-1863/07/04

Carl E. Austin collection

 Collection
Identifier: L275
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents related to the Austin family. Items include a school journal, songs and poems written by Carl Austin, Sr. A miscellaneous folder also contains a card from the Progressive Spiritualist Church, his work done during elementary school and a memo listing the owners of 340 W. 30th Street from 1930 to 1961.This collection also contains information about his son, Carl E. Austin, Jr. This includes his military service records, notes taken while a student at...
Dates: 1913-1961

Civil War paper soldiers

 Collection — Folder S3145
Identifier: S3145
Scope and Contents This collection consists of five paper soldiers--likely Union soldiers in the Civil War from the late 19th century. Four of them are the same soldier aiming a gun and the fifth soldier is standing face-forward holding a sword.
Dates: 19th century

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 M. Gray papers

 Collection
Identifier: L540
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, military documents, such as telegrams, transport orders, and bulletins, pay record book, tickets, identification cards, Gray's World War I diary, World War I photographs and postcards, Rose Polytechnic Institute school materials, recommendation letters, service records, photocopies of newspaper clippings, autobiographical materials, memorials, insurance vouchers, a charcoal drawing of Gray during WWI, and realia from World War I and Rose Polytechnic...
Dates: 1910-1948

Donald Barneclo photograph album

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: P073
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph album from Donald Barneclo in Indianapolis, Indiana; Bourges, Paris and other places in France, 1918-1919 regarding Indianapolis street scenes, Barneclo in uniform, sights in France during and after World War I, tickets from sightseeing and travel, a telegram, snapshots of other soldiers and military life, the battlefields in France, destruction from war, including the damge to Reims Cathedral, and casualties.There are also photographs from...
Dates: 1889-circa 1950

Harland L. Osgatharp collection

 Collection
Identifier: L120
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Harland L. Osgatharp’s diaries during World War II from January 1942 to December 1945. The diaries describe Osgatharp’s work in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, his enlistment, training, service in military hospitals, and his return to Otwell, Indiana. Also included in the diaries are his reminiscences of service in World War I. The collection also contains an undated address book.
Dates: 1942-1945

Harry H. Coburn photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP032
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs from Harry H. Coburn in Indianapolis and Greenfield, Indiana ranging from 1913 to 1927, regarding the impact of the 1913 flood on the White River and the surrounding areas, such as Riverside Park, near downtown Indianapolis; James Whitcomb Riley attending his final birthday celebration at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis (October 7, 1915) and the parade at the the Riley celebration in Greenfield, Indiana (October, 1925); and events in Indianapolis during...
Dates: 1913-1927

Indiana War History Commission collection

 Collection
Identifier: L585
Scope and Contents This collection contains the administrative files of the Indiana War History Commission, including a detailed history of the group, publication plans and ingoing and outgoing correspondence. The commission collected information from most Indiana counties during World War I. This information falls into two categories: service records of soldiers, used for the publication of the "Gold Star Honor Roll" and "Indiana's Roll of Honor"; and war histories, records of civilian activities,...
Dates: 1917-1989

Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Training Detachment No. 2 panoramic photograph

 Collection — Object OBF009
Identifier: OBF009
Scope and Contents This collection includes a black-and-white panoramic photograph taken by R. C. Moorefield in Indianapolis, Indiana of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Training Detachment No. 2. N.A. in 1918.
Dates: 1918