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Found in 755 Collections and/or Records:

Fifteen months experience

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227622211]
Identifier: MSS SC 3268
Scope and Contents

Fifteen months experience gives an account of Bulkley's journey following his release from the Mormon Battalion until he rejoined his family. This collection includes a photocopy of the original account.

Dates: Date not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Fifteen months experience

John Fisher correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317007]
Identifier: MSS SC 2024
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters. Six of the items were written by John Fisher, while three were written by his brother, Theodore. John and Theodore tell about their experiences in the Army of the Potomac.

Dates: 1863-1865
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Fisher correspondence

Lillie Jacobs Fitzsimons interviews

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341452]
Identifier: MSS 2635
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview. Fitzsimons was sent to Australia and New Guinea in 1943. After 18 months, she went to a hospital in the Philippines. She talked about the challenges of nursing in a tropical area. She treated both American soldiers and Japanese captives.

Dates: approximately 2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Lillie Jacobs Fitzsimons interviews

Philip M. Flammer interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330299]
Identifier: MSS SC 3168
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Christopher Stockwell on October 31, 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Flammer describes how he went to Vietnam as a historian for the Air Force from 1968 to 1969 and lived in Saigon where he worked and taught for the University of Maryland. He also tutored a Vietnamese girl in English, performed some missionary work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and felt compassion for the Vietnamese people. He said he wished...
Dates: 1985 October 31
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Philip M. Flammer interview

Dan Foote interviews

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330281]
Identifier: MSS SC 3169
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Wade Jacoby on 9 Oct. 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Foote joined the Marines Corps in 1968 at age 18, was trained as a radio operator, and served with an artillery battery in Vietnam. He told of his experiences in combat and what it was like to kill and to be shot at. He said many of the men drank alcohol and did drugs. Many times he was the only one who did not which made him lonely at times. He later made sergeant, and he...
Dates: 1985 October 9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Dan Foote interviews

Henry B. Freeman diary

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232586831]
Identifier: MSS SC 1179
Content Description

Materials include a photocopy of a typescript of the diary of Henry Freeman, officer in the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, written during a campaign in the western United States during the American Indian wars. Includes his account of the Battle of Little Big Horn in eastern Montana where Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was killed and his army was defeated by the the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. Dated March-October 1876.

Dates: 1876
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Henry B. Freeman diary

John Charles Fremont letter to George Talcott

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233288072]
Identifier: Vault MSS 275
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated August 18, 1848, and addressed to Col. George Talcott, "Chief of Ordnance." Fremont writes concerning "vouchers for disbursement in the Ordnance Department" for the campaigns in California for 1846 and 1847.

Dates: 1848 August 18
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Charles Fremont letter to George Talcott

Friedrich Ebert letter to Johann Goldak

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: A2020-10-075
Dates: 1919 March 17
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Benjamin St. James Fry diary

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232477437]
Identifier: MSS SC 816
Scope and Contents Photocopies of the handwritten diary of Reverend Benjamin Fry, a prominent Methodist minister, written between September 28, 1861, and August 4, 1863, while serving as a military chaplain to the 22nd Regiment of the Ohio Voluntary Infantry during the Civil War. At the end of the diary, Fry includes two pages of dates and corresponding scripture references, which seem to be topics for sermons he (and sometimes others) gave in three different camps during the war. Materials dated 1861 to...
Dates: 1861-1863
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Benjamin St. James Fry diary

G. C. Richard and Lois B. Galloway oral histories audio, 2002

 Series — Folder 2: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232578911]
Identifier: MSS 8954 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains audio cassettes of oral histories by G. C. Richard Galloway and Lois B. Galloway covering 1918-1945. The histories discuss their childhoods in Idaho and their war experiences.

Dates: 2002
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8954, G. C. Richard and Lois B. Galloway oral histories and transcript

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