Military life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Clifford W. Craig papers
Collection
Identifier: L268
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, military orders, training information, intelligence reports, maps of France and Germany, published U.S. Army booklets, and photographs from Clifford W. Craig and the United States Army in the United States, France, and Germany, ranging from 1911 to 1930 regarding military activity during World War I. Materials are primarily in English, with a few items in French and German.
Dates:
1917-1925
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Clifford W. Craig papers
Corydon P. Pierce collection
Collection — Folder S1062
Identifier: S1062
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises two letters and a hand-drawn map (all of which are laminated) from Corydon P. Pierce in Tennessee in 1863 and Angie Glazier in Crown Point, Indiana, regarding Pierce's service in the Union Army and imprisonment in Libby Prison.The first letter was from Corydon P. Pierce to his wife, Sarah Pierce on March 17, 1863, while camped near LaGrange, Tennessee, describing how he assisted Benjamin Case in digging up his brother Hiram's corpse, and transporting the...
Dates:
1863, undated
Daniel Hill and James T. C. Watson collection
Collection — Folder S3111
Identifier: S3111
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers concerning Daniel Hill and James T. C. Watson ranging from 1861 to 1865 regarding their service with the Union army during the U.S. CIvil War. The documents include a record for Hill's military service; discharge papers for Daniel Hill in 1862, 1864, and 1865; a letter to Watson acknowledgement of Special Order 60; discharge papers for James T. L. Watson in 1865; and a record of enlistment for James T. L. Watson from 1900.
Dates:
1861-1865, 1900
David Moreland, Jr. papers
Collection — Folder S2427
Identifier: S2427
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises 17 letters from David Moreland to his brother Henry Moreland in Howard County, Indiana ranging from 1862 to 1865, during his service in the Union army during the U.S. Civil War, regarding his views on the war and politics with mentions of David's family. There is also a photocopied 1905 newspaper article about Justice of the Peace Henry L. Moreland.
Dates:
1862-1865; 1905
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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David Moreland, Jr. papers
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
Edmund Engle Civil War diaries and papers
Collection
Identifier: L410
Scope and Contents
The collection contains photostats of muster rolls, a marriage license, and other government papers of Captain Edmund Engle ranging from 1856 to 1880. Along with the official military documents, the collection also contains four diaries written by Engle. The diaries span from 1864 to 1866 and focuses primarily on his day-to-day activities like marching, encampment, and the general health of other soldiers.
Dates:
1856-1880
Ernest Meyer collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0947
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers related to Ernest Meyer's time spent in the U.S. military during World War I. The papers include telegrams, a roster, instructional materials, mess accounts, and other ephemera. Oversize material includes comprises 4 certificates from the South Side Turnverein in Indianapolis (1911-1922) and World War I-related material, including a broadside for the 149th Field Hospital, 113th Sanitary Train (1917) and a publication, "The World's Greatest War," which...
Dates:
1911-1922
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ernest Meyer collection
Forrest L. Spencer collection
Collection — Folder S1227
Identifier: S1227
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence and papers pertaining to the Nelson, Sturgis, and Bailiff families ranging from 1840 to 1892 in Jennings County, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, and Kansas. The papers include U.S. Civil War letters and a military discharge from George Nelson (1861-1863), documents relating to Susan Bailey, Martha A. Sturgis, and E. Blanchard (1877-1878), and a wedding invitation (1892).
Dates:
1840-1892
Francis Marion Van Pelt family collection
Collection
Identifier: L168
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Van Pelt family correspondence ranging from 1863 to 1929 and includes letters written by Frank, Madge and their children; letters sent to Frank's mother, Almira Van Pelt Smith, by her children and grandchildren; and letters sent by Madge's relatives in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. Family documents range from 1879 to 1936 and include Frank's promotion and resignation certificates from the Railway Mail Service; "The Bee-Hive" cover pages from College Temple of...
Dates:
1861-1936
Frank Marshall Moorman papers
Collection
Identifier: L111
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, certificates, newspaper articles, recipes, an autograph book, scrapbooks, and correspondence from Frank Marshall Moorman and others in Lafayette and Indianapolis, Indiana and France ranging from 1879 to 1952, regarding family matters, club business, education, university life, and military orders, ranks and service during World War I.
Dates:
1879-1952; undated
