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Military orders

 Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Found in 114 Collections and/or Records:

Calvin Schwartz Smith and Ethel Lucile Dimond Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8922
Scope and Contents Materials include items created or collected by Calvin and Lucile Smith. Most of the items relate to Calvin's time as Chaplain of the 91st Infantry Division during World War I. Also includes some personal papers from his time as an educator in Utah, his missionary diary, family history records, and family photographs. Includes a few items related to Calvin's wife, Lucile, when she was selected as "Utah Mother of the Year" in 1967, a year after Calvin Smith's death, and papers related to her...
Dates: 1876-1976

Thomas L. Kane note and orders for Mormon Battalion, 1846-1847

 Sub-Series — Box 14: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550761]
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a note and order regarding the Mormon Battalion. Materials date between 1846 and 1847.

Dates: 1846-1847

Thomas P. McArthur papers, 1944-1946

 File — Box 11: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005494], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 284
Scope and Contents Materials include letters written to Thomas P. McArthur's wife and friends describing living conditions on the front lines during his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Included is the key to a code, devised to tell his family where he was stationed and where he was going, that he included in his letters. Contains his transfer orders and division newsletters. Also contains a wide selection of German and American propaganda dropped behind enemy lines to discourage troops....
Dates: 1944-1946

United States Army 5th Calvary correspondence and orders

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230216977]
Identifier: MSS 1688
Scope and Contents Handwritten correspondence, handwritten and printed orders, and a handwritten campaign map. Also included are photocopies of handwritten correspondence apparently taken from a microfilm collection. The bulk of the materials were written in the summer and fall of 1876 during the campaigns against the Dakota and Cheyenne Indians. They document the activitiesand condition of the 5th Cavalry during these campaigns. Some letters also document that unit's activities in campaigning against the...
Dates: 1864-1881

Wallace Hess papers, 1943-1950

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1 File 1695
Scope and Contents Materials include separation and discharge papers, orders, maps, a war stamp album, program for graduation exercises from his officer's class and certificate of completion, notice, memo and certifcate signed by President Harry Truman of the awarding of the Bronze Star Medal, two infantry histories, "Philippine Expeditionary Force" by Gasei (a Japanese prograganda publication), and pictures of or belonging to Wallance Hess regarding his service in the United States Army during World War II....
Dates: 1943-1950

Warren L. Cooper papers, 1944-1947, 1998-2000

 File — Box 22: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15; Series 18; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005163], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 559
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain papers relating to Warren L. Cooper's service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II from 1942-1945. Contains a letter written by Cooper about one of his missions, an account of his service written by his wife, copied military certificates, copied military orders, and copied photographs. Dated 1944-1947, 1998-2000.

Dates: 1944-1947; 1998-2000

Daniel H. Wells papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239135541]
Identifier: MSS 9637
Scope and Contents Two photocopies of original handwritten letters written by Daniel H. Wells. Typed transcripts of both letters are also included. The first letter was written on September 26, 1848, from Salt Lake City by Daniel Wells to "dear brother." He discusses sending his two yoke of oxen to a camp in addition to assistance from others. The second letter was written on April 26th, 1852, and is titled "Special Order No. 1" and is signed by Lieutenant General D. H. Wells, James Ferguson, Adjutant General....
Dates: 1848-1852