War
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 30 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
Paul B. Hendrickson World War I collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 694
Overview
The Paul B. Hendrickson World War I collection contains correspondence written by Hendrickson to his family back home during his time in service. The letters were to his mother and to the girl next door, Cecil Frances Rife, whom he later married. There is a diary kept during the year he was in France and almost 300 postcards which were sent home either individually or in envelopes.The collection also includes negatives and photographs taken at Camp Parker in Quincy, Illinois, and at...
Dates:
1914-1950; Majority of material found within 1917-1919
Paul Blouet correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS 0129
Abstract:
This collection consists primarily of letters written by French author and journalist, Paul Blouet (pseudonym, Max O'Rell) between 1885 and 1903. The letters discuss Blouet's lecture tours, the management of his play "John Bull on the Continent", and his affliction with cancer.
Dates:
1885 - 1903
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
Robert A. Crain statement regarding Maddox-Wells duel
Collection
Identifier: MS 0216
Overview
This is a statement by Robert Crain of his part in a gunfight between Doctor Thomas Maddox and Mr. S.L. Wells that occurred near Natchez, Mississippi. This fight involved Jim Bowie, among others, and resulted in the death and wounding of several people.
Dates:
1827
Texas Governors Letters collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0142
Abstract:
This collection contains three letters: two from Governor James Allred of Texas to Emil Hurja of the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. (1935-36), and one from Gov. Lawrence Sullivan Ross of Texas to General M. Cist of Cincinnati, Ohio (1889). Subjects include thanks for gifts sent and requests for reading materials, and do not relate specifically to Texas politics.
Dates:
1889; 1935 - 1936
U.S. Civil War National Cemetery letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0264
Abstract:
This collection consists of twenty-one letters from various U.S. Civil War military departments to other U.S. military departments, regarding various aspects relating to national cemeteries. These aspects include: the location, construction and inspection of national cemeteries, requests for materials and proposed costs, and reports of appointments and comments of national cemetery superintendents.
Dates:
1867 - 1891
Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interview collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 647
Overview
This is a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation, featuring audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Vietnamese Americans living in and near Houston, Texas. These interviews are online at https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/79696.
Dates:
2011
W. H. Brooker U.S. Civil War diary
Collection
Identifier: MS 0126
Overview
The diary of W.H. Brooker is a small (3 1/2" × 2"× 1/4") leatherbound booklet in which annotations in pencil have been made. Most of the entries date from 6 October 1863 to 22 June 1864.
Dates:
1863 - 1866
William Williston Heartsill journal
Collection
Identifier: MS 0035
Abstract:
Journal describes Texan Confederate soldier W.W. Heartsill's experiences during the U.S. Civil War, including material related to Texas ranching activities, Indian and Mexican affairs, and botany; the Texas Secession Convention; generals Braxton Bragg, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, and John W. Whitfield; his work with the W.P. Lane Rangers (later Company F, 2nd Regiment, Texas Calvary); battles of Chickamauga and Vicksburg; prisoners of war; and Confederate Army Trans-Mississippi...
Dates:
1861 - 1866