Military
Found in 755 Collections and/or Records:
Jessie M. Hewins Sherwood collection
Hugh Shick papers
Photocopies of handwritten notes, indexes, and bibliographies relating to George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, and the Seventh Calvary.
E. Gene Shumway family papers
R. Phil Shumway autobiography
Andrew Jackson Shupe diary
Henry Hopkins Sibley letter to E. H. Jones
Letter of Henry Hopkins Sibley to E. H. Jones, 24 July 1859, Ft. Laramie. Contains a reference to "the Mountain Meadow Orphans, Wards of the Nation," who were then at Ft. Laramie. Important letter tracing the route of the small children not killed at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, 11 September 1857.
L. Simmons certificate of discharge
Certificate of discharge. Simmons was from Williamson, Texas, and apparently served for the British in the "Imperial Light Horse" in South Africa during the Boer War.
Bryan Sinclair autobiography
This collection contains photocopies of a typewritten autobiography with handwritten notes and corrections.
Maryetta P. W. Slaughter biographies of Charles Hopkins
Two typewritten biographical sketches about Charles Hopkins and his wife, Mary E.S. Hopkins, written by Slaughter and her daughter, Ida Williams Robison, and a printed Mormon Battalion muster roll with handwritten entries which includes information concerning Hopkins.
Allen Slusher letter
Photocopy and typescript of an order dated Sept. 15, 1838 and addressed to an unnamed sergeant. This item directs the assembling of a company of Missouri Militia at Independence on Sept. 21 and 29, 1838 for the purpose of expelling the Mormons or resisting Indian "invasions."