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    Ronald James Sampson Collection Sergeant, Army, Cold War - South Carolina; Virginia; Louisiana; Germany.
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    Theodore K. Puskas Collection Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Pennsylvania; New Jersey; Virginia; South Carolina; France; Germany.
    • Contributor: Puskas, Theodore K. - Unknown Interviewer - City of Laguna Woods - Macon, Christopher
    • Date: 1946
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    Steven Paul Delp Collection Colonel, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Pleiku, Vietnam; Dak To, Vietnam; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Holabird, Maryland; Korea; Washington, DC; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Shafter, Hawaii; Monterey, California; South Carolina; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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    Robert Leach Davis Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Devens, Massachusetts; South Carolina; Connecticut; Virginia; England; Belgium; Germany.
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    Joseph R. Hawley papers, Correspondence, diaries, speeches, notebooks, business records, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Hawley's service as U.S. senator from Connecticut, Union army officer, and chairman of the United States Centennial Commission; work as a newspaper editor in Hartford, Conn.; and personal and family life. Documents his Civil War service with the 1st and 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiments, U.S. Army, in North Carolina, South Carolina,...
    • Contributor: Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell)
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    Donna F. Barbisch Collection Major General, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - San Antonio, Texas; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Vietnam; Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Tampa, Florida; North Carolina; South Carolina; Virginia; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Aberdeen, Maryland; Arlington, Virginia.
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    A.G. Magrath correspondence,
    A.G. Magrath papers | Andrew Gordon Magrath papers     Letters written by Magrath while serving as governor of South Carolina including a letter of May 8, 1861, addressed to Edward Frost, Virginia state legislator, regarding the lack of public funds for supplies for South Carolina troops; letter of January 26, 1865, to Joseph E. Brown, Georgia state governor, regarding the cooperation of the Confederate state governors in implementing crucial reforms to the war...
    • Contributor: Magrath, A. G. (Andrew Gordon)
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    Orange Smith papers, Letters written by Smith to his brother while serving with Company C, 13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Thibodaux, La., near Charleston, S.C., and Harrisonburg, Va. Includes a brief typewritten summary of each letter and photocopies of Company C muster rolls.
    • Contributor: Smith, Orange - United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 13th (). Company C.
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    Robert Carroll Rhoads Collection Technical Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - South Carolina; Virginia; Iceland; France; Belgium; Holland; Germany; European Theater.
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    John Whitten papers, Diary (110 pages; 1863 August 4-1865 May 17) kept by Whitten during his Civil War service with the 5th Iowa Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Subjects include the battles of Corinth and Jackson, Miss., the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and Whitten's experience as prisoner of war in Belle Isle prison, Richmond, Va., in Columbia, S.C., and in Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Ga. Also includes genealogical material...
    • Contributor: Whitten, John
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    Edward Willis papers, Correspondence, ledger, memorandum books, requisition books, newspaper clippings, printed material, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Willis's service as chief quartermaster of G.T. Beauregard's division in the Confederate Army. Documents defensive operations along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, the siege of Petersburg, and movement of troops in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.
    • Contributor: Willis, Edward
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    Phillip Ryan Grant Collection Sergeant First Class, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Pennsylvania; Texas; South Carolina; Michigan; New Jersey; Louisiana; Mississippi; Maryland; Virginia; Washington, DC; West Virginia; Iraq. Sergeant First Class, Army, Operation Inherent Resolve - Kuwait; Jordan.
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    Eric H. Hanson Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Vermont; New Hampshire; Maine; Tennessee; South Carolina; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Vogt Cartwright, Donna - Kuczkowski, Patricia - Hanson, Eric H.
    • Date: 1942
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    John Morgan Klover Collection First Lieutenant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Virginia; Georgia; South Carolina; California; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Klover, John Morgan
    • Date: 1942
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    Samuel P. Dendy Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - South Carolina; Georgia; New Jersey; Virginia. Army, Cold War.
    • Contributor: Wedgewood, Sarah - Dendy, Samuel P.
    • Date: 1941
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    Michael A. Janovicz Collection Captain, Marine Corps, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Florida; South Carolina; Michigan; Indiana; Illinois; Virginia. Colonel, Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Saudi Arabia; Cuba.
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    Randall Brooks Collection Technician Four, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; Italy. Second Lieutenant, Army, Cold War - South Carolina; Italy.
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    Charles W. Cowan papers,
    Charles Wesley Cowan papers     Chiefly correspondence between Cowan while serving with 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate Army, and his wife, Margaret Susannah Foster Cowan, and other family members. Letters pertain to conditions and life in camps in South Carolina and Virginia as well as to management of the Cowan farm in Abbeville County, S.C. Also includes transcripts of a portion of the letters, financial records, a will,...
    • Contributor: Cowan, Charles W. (Charles Wesley)
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    Patricia Carol Kishman Collection Sergeant First Class, Army, Cold War - West Virginia; New Jersey; Virginia; South Carolina; Oklahoma; Germany. Sergeant First Class, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Pennsylvania; Missouri; Iraq.
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    James William Oxford Collection Colonel, Army, Cold War - Boone, North Carolina; Lenoir, North Carolina; Durham, North Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; Washington, DC; Virginia; South Carolina; Georgia; Florida; Mississippi; Alabama; Texas; Europe. Sergeant, Marine Corps, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Parris Island, South Carolina; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Cherry Point, North Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; Vietnam.
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    Kevin L. Jones Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Darmstadt, Germany; Poland; Kuwait; South Carolina; Virginia.
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    William E. Jacobs Collection Private First Class, Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 - .
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    John P. Grooms Collection Captain, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South Carolina; Missouri; Virginia; Texas.
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    Junior Dayton Riggleman Collection Master Sergeant, Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 - . Master Sergeant, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - .
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    Frank Bauer Collection Major, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Kentucky; Texas; Wyoming; Missouri; Georgia; Colorado; Illinois; Wisconsin; Indiana; Oklahoma; Maryland; Virginia; South Carolina; California; Germany; Vietnam.
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    Frederick G. Hill Collection Captain, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - New Jersey; Missouri; Virginia; Georgia; South Carolina; Louisiana.
    • Contributor: Naperville Veterans Oral History Project, Naperville, Illinois - Nathan Glynn - Hill, Kirsten Lee - Hill, Frederick G. - Geitner, Charles E. - Alexander Kolbasov
    • Date: 1968
    • Resource: Interview / Recording - Audio - 01:23:05.0
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    Peter H. Satterlee Collection Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Georgia; South Carolina; New Jersey; Kentucky; Virginia; Maryland; Germany; Italy; Panama; Japan; Korea; Philippines; Honduras; Grenada; Alaska.
    • Contributor: Satterlee, Peter H. - Farmer, Frank
    • Date: 1966
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    Theodore Talbot papers, Diaries (1843-1852) relating chiefly to Oregon Trail exploration with John C. Frémont's second expedition, 1843-1844; a journey (1848-1849) from New York to Oregon Territory via Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, and Honolulu on board the steamer Massachusetts; and garrison duty at various western forts as an officer with the 1st Regiment, U.S. Artillery. Correspondence, chiefly from Talbot to his mother and sister, complements the diaries...
    • Contributor: Talbot, Theodore
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    James Everett Johnson Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South Carolina; Georgia; Virginia; Missouri; Germany; Vietnam.
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    Joseph D. Sylvester Collection Master Sergeant, Army, Cold War - Fort Knox, Kentucky; South Carolina; Maryland; Germany; New Jersey; Virginia; New York.
    • Contributor: Sylvester, Joseph D. - Parker, Daniel M.
    • Date: 1955
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    James L. Dries Collection Captain, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Virginia; Missouri; Kentucky; South Carolina.
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    Billy Lee Richard Collection Chief Master Sergeant, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Germany; Thailand; Korea; Johnston Island, Hawaii; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Ohio; Virginia; Montana; Colorado; Arizona; Illinois; New Jersey; South Carolina; West Virginia; Delaware.
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    Chester Volley Graves Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Georgia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Virginia.
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    William Edwin Barden, Jr. Collection Private First Class, Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 - .
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    Thomas W. Hickman Collection Army, World War, 1939-1945 - .
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    Stephen S. Barclay Collection Corporal, Army, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - South Carolina; Virginia; Kentucky; Wisconsin; Indiana; Illinois; Germany; Kuwait; Iraq.
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    Avery E. Reese Collection Specialist Five, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South Carolina; Virginia; Germany.
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    Daniel J. Klee Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Virginia; Texas; Colorado; Wisconsin; Arizona; South Carolina; Georgia; Hawaii; Germany; Honduras; Iraq.
    • Contributor: Vest, Rosemarie - Veterans Outreach for Community Advocacy (Voca) - Self-Interview - Klee, Daniel J.
    • Date: 1981
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    John R. Jeter, Jr. Collection Colonel, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - .
    • Contributor: Jeter Jr., John R. - Macintyre, Marianna - National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
    • Date: 1949
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    Alfred Carmon papers, Chiefly letters written by Carmon to his family in Sand Lake, N.Y., while serving with Company H, 169th New York Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War, describing camp life and skirmishes in Virginia, South Carolina, and Florida. Includes comments on Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, presidential election of 1864, and Robert E. Lee's surrender.
    • Contributor: Carmon, Alfred
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    Grayson Evans Taylor Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - South Carolina; England; France; Belgium; Luxemburg; Germany.
    • Contributor: Davis, Robert L. - Taylor, Grayson Evans
    • Date: 1944
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    Jerry Ray Davis Collection Specialist Four, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South Carolina; Fort Eustis, Virginia; Vietnam.
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    Morgan David Roderick, III Collection Warrant Officer, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - .
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    Irving Israel Rimer Collection Technical Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - South Carolina; Virginia; Texas; California; Mississippi; France; Germany.
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    Lazarus Dwain Light Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Virginia; Georgia; South Carolina; Maryland; England; France; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Light, Lazarus Dwain - Light, Peggy A.
    • Date: 1943
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    James Joseph Rudy Collection Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Cold War - Texas; Alabama; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Kansas; Virginia; Germany; Vietnam.
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    Steve M. Dailey Collection Specialist Four, Army, Cold War - Saint Louis, Missouri; South Carolina; California; Germany.
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    Thomas Patrick Galvin Collection Major, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South Carolina; Korea; New Jersey; Georgia; Vietnam; Texas; Panama, California.
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    G.T. Beauregard papers, Correspondence, scrapbooks, and military papers, including a diary, letterbooks, headquarters records, telegrams and dispatches, orders, endorsements, and rosters. The bulk of the papers, 1861-1865, relate primarily to Beauregard's career as a general in the Confederate Army, especially at the sieges of Fort Sumter and Charleston, S.C., Corinth, Miss., and Petersburg, Va., and the battles of Atlanta, Ga., First Manassas, Va., and Shiloh, Tenn. Other...
    • Contributor: Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant)
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    Robert H. Reaves correspondence,
    Robert H. Reaves papers     AlsS (1862 December 10-1864 December 26) from Reaves while serving with the 21st South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America Army, in South Carolina and Virginia. The letters are addressed to his father and sister and discuss provisions, camp life of the regiment, and military affairs. Topics include the battles of Fredericksburg, Va. (1862), Goldsboro, N.C. (1862), and Murfreesboro, Tenn. (1862-1863). Includes typewritten...
    • Contributor: Reaves, Robert H.
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    Heyward G. Hutson, III Collection Colonel, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - . Army, Afghan War, 2001- - .
    • Contributor: The Citadel, Department of English - Hutson III, Heyward G. - Shevchik, Joseph - Maxwell, Lauren Rule
    • Date: 1989
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    James Edward Snitker Collection Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Cold War - Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Virginia; Germany.
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    Don L. Latimer Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - .
    • Contributor: Latimer, Don L.
    • Date: 1941
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    Michael Flores Collection Specialist Four, Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Missouri; Virginia; South Carolina; Georgia; Germany; Saudi Arabia; Iraq; Kuwait.
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    John Emerson Anderson memoir,
    John Emerson Anderson papers     Memoir of Anderson recounting his Civil War service in Company D, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, compiled from his diary and letters to his family. Documents the regiment's service during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, the battles of Chancellorsville (Va.) and Gettysburg (Pa.), in operations against guerrillas and renegades in east Tennessee in the winter of 1863-1864, and under General William T....
    • Contributor: Anderson, John Emerson
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    Alexander Paul Rusanowsky Collection Colonel, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Camp Maxey, Texas; South Carolina; Puerto Rico; New Jersey; Virginia; Hawaii; Washington, DC; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Europe. Korean War, 1950-1953 - Korea. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Vietnam.
    • Contributor: James L. Hunniford - Prince William County Public Schools, Garfield High School - Bayne, Chad - Rusanowsky, Alexander Paul - Hunniford, James Lee
    • Date: 1942
    • Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:51:12.0
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    Benjamin F. Whitten papers,
    Benjamin Franklin Whitten papers     Correspondence, family papers, military records, financial and legal records, and other papers relating primarily to Whitten's Civil War service with the 9th Maine Infantry Regiment. Documents his participation in the Battle of Morris Island, S.C., 1863; other actions and encampments along the southeast Atlantic coast in 1862 and 1863; the Battle of Cold Harbor, Va., 1864; and engagements in Bermuda Hundred, Va., where he...
    • Contributor: Whitten, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)
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    David Hann Collection Air Force, Cold War - Korea. Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Texas; Germany; Kuwait. Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - New Mexico; Virginia; Washington, DC; South Carolina; Kansas; New Jersey; Iraq.
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    Halsey Bartlett correspondence,
    Halsey Bartlett papers     ALsS written primarily by Bartlett while serving with Company A, 6th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, to his mother, Christina S. Fisher Bartlett, and sister, Christina Fisher Bartlett, of Killingly, Conn. Written primarily while Bartlett was stationed at Beaufort and Port Royal, S.C., but also from Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia. Subjects include camp life, food, illness and death of comrades, and family affairs....
    • Contributor: Bartlett, Halsey
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    John William Barrett Collection First Lieutenant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Virginia; Massachusetts; South Carolina; Texas; Maryland; California; Luzon and Manila (Philippines).
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    Charles Kline papers, Correspondence including originals and transcripts of letters, envelopes, newspaper clippings, pension documents, a copy of a photograph, and a drawing relating mainly to Kline's Civil War service with the 115th New York Infantry Regiment, Company D. Subjects include Kline's capture at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and time in a prison camp in Chicago, Ill.; daily camp life; his service near Alexandria, Va., and Hilton...
    • Contributor: Kline, Charles
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    George H. Breuler Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Virginia; Massachusetts; South Carolina; France; Germany; Belgium; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Breuler, George H. - Massachusetts National Guard Museum and Archives - Goodfellow, Susan T.
    • Date: 1942
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    Cornelius Chase family papers, Correspondence, journal, speeches, writings, reports, genealogical material, financial records, printed matter, drawings, and other papers relating to Chase family members. Pertains chiefly to Cornelius Chase, and his son, Cornelius Thurston Chase, in their careers as clergymen, educators, and farmers. Documents the latter's career as superintendent of public instruction for the state of Florida. Also includes correspondence of Jonas King and a copy of his...
    • Contributor: Chase, Cornelius - Stokes, E. H. (Ellwood Haines) - Confederate States of America. Army - Chase, Cornelius Thurston
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    Arthur T. Riccio Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Massachusetts; South Carolina; Virginia; New York; North Africa; Italy; European Theater.
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    Beth M. Watson Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - South Carolina; Virginia; Alaska; California; Germany.
    • Contributor: Brandon Weise - Watson, Beth M. - Roen, Mike - Tanner, Robin - Regional Technical Institute/Daughters of the American Revolution, Reno
    • Date: 1977
    • Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:22:48.0
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    James E. Brown, Sr. Collection E-4, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - .
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    Robert F. Banas Collection Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Iraq. Specialist, Army, Afghan War, 2001- - South Carolina; Buffalo, New York; Virginia; California; Louisiana; Afghanistan.
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    Melvin L. Bryant Collection Command Sergeant Major, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Oregon; San Francisco, California; Georgia; Virginia; North Carolina; Anzio, Italy. Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Vietnam.
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    Lin R. Lane Collection Sergeant, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South Carolina; Oklahoma.
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    William Coffee correspondence,
    William Coffee papers     Letters (1864 April 16-November 24) from Coffee during his service with the 3rd New Hampshire Volunteers concerning General Thomas W. Sherman's Port Royal expedition, the capture of Fort Wagner, South Carolina, and the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Addressed to his brother George Coffee who was serving in the 2nd California Volunteers.
    • Contributor: Coffee, William
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    Larry O'Neal Dean Collection Corporal, Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 - South Carolina; Fort Jackson, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Korea.