Military
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Memoranda to British Ship Captains from the Admiralty
Collection
Identifier: MS 0204
Abstract:
This is a 38-page handwritten logbook containing dozens of general memos signed by proxy for various British Navy and Marine officers during the time period 1807-1809.
Dates:
1807-1809
Miller Family letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0456
Overview
The collection includes 11 letters writtten by James Miller, A Company, 63rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers to his brother, Samuel, in Williamsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The letters, written between Ocotober 6, 1861 and March 11, 1864, offer a good account of daily camp life. Also included are five letters from Robert Miller to Samuel Miler and one letter from Bell Miller to Samuel Miller. These letters were written between April 24, 1868 and April 22, 1872 and primarily discuss...
Dates:
1861-1872
Miron / Berman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0839
Overview
One box of photographs, citizenship documentation, marriage and death records, correspondence, biographical information, education records, military paperwork, and family history and genealogy materials document the lives of some of the Miron / Berman family from 1924 to 1982.
Dates:
1924 - 1982
Missouri Cavalry and Infantry Descriptive Rolls
Collection
Identifier: MS 0292
Abstract:
Four bound volumes of descriptive rolls recording the status (as of 1863) of soldiers serving in the following Missouri regiments in the Union Army during the United States Civil War: Missouri Infantry Volunteers, Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, Missouri Infantry and Cavalry Militia.
Dates:
1863
Mrs. E. H. Wright. Letters from Union Generals
Collection
Identifier: MS 0111
Abstract:
Six letters from Civil War generals of the Union Army in reply to Mrs. E. H. Wright’s request for their photographs; respondents include Generals J. J. Abercrombie, John Gross Barnard, Cyrus Bussey, George W. Cullum, William Hammond, and George Douglas Ramsay.
Dates:
1864
Neumann Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0241
Abstract
Chiefly letters to Louisa (Neumann) Bering, a resident of Houston, Tex., from her brothers and sisters, including letters from her brother, Emil Neumann, describing his service in the Confederate Army, stationed at Fort Eagle Grove (Fort Moore) and Galveston, Tex.; together with clippings and photos. Includes material relating to land in Texas, Bering family, and Little Rock, AR, during the Civil War.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1856 - 1886; 1850 - 1955
Noel Parrish Texas Aviation Hall of Fame 2018 awards, 2018
Collection
Identifier: MS 0948
Overview
The Noel Parrish Texas Aviation Hall of Fame 2018 awards collection offers a snapshot of the event honoring, among others, Noel Parrish for being inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame for his contributions overseeing the Tuskegee airmen at Maxwell Field.
Dates:
2018
Osterhout Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0355
Overview
Correspondence, drawings, maps, scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers, and other papers, of John Patterson Osterhout (1826-1903), relating to his early life in Pennsylvania, early impressions of Texas, work as a judge, service in the Confederate Army, and leader of the Republican Party in Texas, and of his son, Paul Osterhout (1859-1944), relating to his studies at Baylor University and University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, activities fighting yellow fever during the digging of the Panama...
Dates:
1836 - 1941; Majority of material found within
Oveta Culp Hobby papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0459
Overview
The Oveta Culp Hobby Papers detail the public life of Hobby, a Houston-based business, media, military, and political leader during the 1940s-1980s. Mrs. Hobby was the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, chairman of the board of the Houston Post, and wife to Texas Lt. Gov. and later Governor, William P. Hobby. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs,...
Dates:
1817 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1985
Peninsular War letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0155
Abstract:
A collection of letters written by British officers serving in Portugal during the Peninsular War referring to matters concerning the war.
Dates:
1808 - 1814