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1. Henry Jackson Hunt papers, 1841-1978

   4,500 items. 14 containers. 5.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   U.S. Army officer and public official. Correspondence, military papers, and other material relating primarily to Hunt's military career.

2. Robert Anderson papers, 1819-1948

   5,000 items. 19 containers plus 1 oversize. 5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Army officer. Correspondence, letterbooks, printed material, writings, and official documents relating to Anderson’s military duty in the Black Hawk War, Mexican War, and Civil War, and to his writings on coast defense, ordnance, and artillery tactics. Includes papers of his daughter, Eba Anderson Lawton, historian and biographer of her father.

3. Peyton Conway March papers, 1897-1955

   6,500 items. 18 containers plus 11 oversize. 11 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Army officer and Chief of Staff of the Army during and after World War I. Correspondence, reports, military training manuals, book and article drafts, lectures and speeches, notebooks, news clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to March's military career.

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4. Nelson W. Jordan family papers, circa 1864-2003

   1,100 items. 15 containers plus 15 oversize. 9.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Freedman, soldier, and clergyman. Photographs, correspondence, personal and family Bibles, family trees and other genealogical information, scrapbooks, diaries, speeches and writings, sermons, notebooks, school work, school publications, diplomas, posters, printed matter, and personal objects documenting Jordan family members and in-laws in Virgina and New Jersey in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries.

5. Robert Frank Augur collection, 1941-2016 : Veterans History Project (U.S.)

   129 items, 11 folders. graphic images: 61 black and white, color ; various sizes. . manuscripts: 63 items.. artifacts: 5 items.. -- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Robert Frank Augur Collection includes biographical information, civilian papers, clippings, correspondence, a diary, military papers, printed matter, a scrapbook, photographs, and artifacts relating to Augur's service in the United States Army during World War II.

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6. World War II unit route maps collection, 1944-1945

   85 maps. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The World War II unit route maps collection consists of maps created by individual U.S. military units commemorating and outlining their movements, engagements, and routes of travel during the second World War. The maps primarily depict historical and geographic landmarks and major events pictorially. Most maps were created by units of the U.S. Army at the division and battalion level, and many are undated, but presumed to have been created in or around 1945 at the conclusion of the war. Units operating in Western Europe -- particularly France, the Low Countries, and Germany -- have the most representation, with select maps depicting Italy, North Africa, the Pacific Ocean, the Philippines, and the Aleutian Islands. The collection consists of 85 unique maps.

7. Charles Wellington Reed papers, 1776-1926

   400 items. 4 containers plus 2 oversize. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Artist and soldier. Correspondence, a diary, ink and pencil sketches, watercolors, prints, military papers, books with illustrations by Reed, maps, medals, and photographs relating chiefly to Reed’s service in the Ninth Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery during the Civil War.

8. Lyman Potter Spencer papers, 1856-1914

   250 items. 11 containers. 4.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Artist, soldier, and calligrapher. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, account books, genealogical file, penmanship file, and other papers documenting Spencer's Civil War service and his efforts to continue the publication of the copybooks by his father, Platt R. Spencer, who developed the Spencerian style of handwriting.

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9. Tilton family papers, 1836-1876

   200 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Letters, military orders, newspaper clippings, and genealogical material relating to the Tilton family of Moscow, N.Y. Most of the correspondence is from four Tilton brothers describing their experiences while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War.

10. Nathaniel D. Hackett correspondence, 1853-1947

    400 items. 4 containers. 1.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Union Army soldier. Chiefly Civil War correspondence of Hackett while serving with the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment. Includes the correspondence of Edith Hackett Cramer, Carrie Fern Hackett, and Millicent Hackett Maloney, the daughters of Nathaniel D. Hackett.