Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Leonard Wood papers, 1825-1942 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1825-1942 |
ID No. | MSS46318 |
Creator | Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927 |
Extent | 85,000 items |
Extent | 295 containers plus 9 oversize |
Extent | 134.3 linear feet |
Extent | 25 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms021015 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78046318 |
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. |