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1943-1946
United States. Army Air Forces
[U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]
U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.
GLC09620.413.02
GLC09620.413.03
GLC09620.413.04
11 April 1862
Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879
The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 11, whole no. 3506 (April 11, 1862)]
Information to Texas planters. Editorial on New Mexico affairs. War in the West and in Virginia. Escape of Confederate prisoners.
GLC05959.51.029
September 15, 1862
Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864
to Mary Hughes
Piety among prisoners of war and lack thereof among political prisoners; conversation with Judge Foster (a fellow inmate).
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06 March 1812
Madison, James, 1751-1836
To Elbridge Gerry
War preparations, patriotism, and the "...progress of some of the most useful branches of manufacture..."
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3 July 1945
Benson, Eris B., 1922-1997
to Mamma
One letter addressed to Anna Petty Benson from Eris B. Benson dated July 3, 1945. Pertains to life while stationed in the Philippines. Mentions sending photographs of where is stationed, description of local Filipinos, and what other men are planning...
GLC09954.306
1812/06/26
Larned, Simon, 1753-1817
[Department No. 6 Orders]
Orders that commanding officers forward a return of all men recruited in their districts in the month of June. Also orders that those who failed to remit returns for May recruits do so, so that the secretary of war can "see at one view the strength...
GLC01450.721.05
1861/08/08
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Simon Cameron re: recommending Edward Ellsworth cousin of Elmer Ellsworth
Written as President to Secretary of War Cameron, asking for a commission for Ellsworth, first cousin of Col. Elmer Ellsworth. The Colonel was the first officer killed in the war.
Basler, Roy, P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New...
GLC02840
19 August 1863
to Benjamin B. French
Reports the results of a meeting with Secretary of War Stanton, "who...will return to the Trustees their own building now in control of the Surgeon General." Lincoln is referring to a Washington, D.C. school house that the War Department took...
GLC03878.01
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