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1. Leonard Wood papers, 1825-1942

   85,000 items. 295 containers plus 9 oversize. 134.3 linear feet. 25 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer, surgeon, and diplomat. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, military papers, subject files, biographical data, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Wood’s career in the United States Army, including his participation in the Apache Wars, especially the campaign to capture Geronimo. Also documents Wood's service as military governor of Cuba, and later, of Moro Province, Philippines.