Military

Lizzie Thompson Letter, 1864 (C2208)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Beverly [Thompson], [Arrow Rock, MO], from Boonville, [MO], Nov. 1, 1864. Horror of war in Missouri, "a bone of contention." Fire destroyed a block on Main Street in Boonville. General Price camped in Boonville, stripped town and country of cattle, forage, and staple goods. Best citizens have fled, friends joining both armies. Family information.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, 1854-1935 (C1030)
0.25 cubic feet; also available on 1 roll of microfilm

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Civil War memoir, correspondence, business and legal papers, family genealogies, and miscellaneous papers of M. Jeff Thompson. Thompson was a civil engineer, a railroad and real estate promoter, mayor of St. Joseph, MO, and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.

Stephen W. Thompson Letter, 1918 (C1729)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Squire H. Anderson, New York City, from France, Mar. 18, 1918. Thompson, A World War I pilot, wrote about mail censorship, sightseeing in Paris, Parisian street system and architecture, entertainment, and weather. Description of a bombing raid and a "Boche attack."

Alvin J. Thornton Papers, 1940-2001 (C4041)
2.0 cubic feet (72 folders), 1 audio disc

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The papers of Alvin "Jack" Thornton, a former World War II B-24 pilot and POW, include photographs, correspondence, diaries, and miscellaneous materials relating to his military service and family.

Valentine Thuma Papers, 1861-1864 (C3020)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Typescript of a Civil War diary and letters of a soldier in the 8th Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

Charles H. Thurber Papers, 1862-1866 (C2573)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Papers of a Union officer including letters to his family while serving in a Missouri artillery unit in northeastern Mississippi, and photocopies of military papers relating to his military career.

Shelton E. Thurman Papers, 1919 (R0307)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)

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These are miscellaneous papers of Shelton E. Thurman, a veteran of World War One and resident of Farmington, Missouri. The collection includes a photograph of the 3rd Battalion Teamsters, U.S. Army, Trier, Germany, a postcard to his wife, Elsie May, and his victory medal, all circa 1919. There are also postwar views of Thurman and his wife.

Nicholas Thurmond Letter, 1865 (C2143)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Description of Sterling Price's engagement at Boonville, MO, October 6-7, 1864. Price's retreat from Missouri, Oct. 1864. Army camps in Arkansas, the Federals, horror and grandeur of war, news of friends. Thurmond's wounds and his position teaching school on a Choctaw Indian reservation since November 28, 1864.

Thomas M. Todd Papers, 1938-1950 (C3790)
0.8 cubic feet (46 folders)

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Papers of Thomas McCutcheon Todd, a World War II soldier from Nevada, Missouri, comprised primarily of letters written to Todd’s family. Many of the letters were written while Todd was in military training and during his enlistment in the U.S. Army; they detail issues of work, family, war, and death during the 1940s.

Tojo Hideki Medical Records, [1945] (C0565)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Medical charts for the premier of Japan for period after he attempted suicide upon Japan’s surrender. Includes photographs.

William Long Tolman Papers, 1852-1919 (R0246)
5 folders

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These are papers of the Evans and Tolman families of Farmington, Missouri, mostly of Dr. William
L. Tolman and his wife, Margaret Frances "Fanny" Evans (1840-1921). Included are letters
from relatives in California and Colorado, a file of letters from Civil War veterans seeking invalid
pensions, and a collection of stories concerning the early settlers of St. Francois County.

Marvin E. Tong Collection, 1878-1947 (C0177)
0.9 cubic feet

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Bar dockets of Ozark County circuit court; case briefs before courts of appeals in Missouri; minutes of meetings of Missionary Baptists; case briefs before U.S. and Missouri Supreme Courts; pamphlets of Civil War recollections; and memorial addresses on life of Champ Clark.

Jay Linn Torrey Scrapbook, 1893-1920 (R0218)
1 cubic foot (1 volume, 1 roll of microfilm)

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The Jay Linn Torrey Scrapbook contains materials compiled by Jay Torrey of Howell County, Missouri. A rancher, politician, and Spanish-American War veteran he compiled materials on the Missouri Immigration Society, the State Fruit Experiment Station, the 'Good Roads' movement, relocation of the state capitol, Fruitville Farm, and the proposed village of Torreytown, and the campaign for the United States Senate in 1918.

Henry D. Townsend Papers, 1862-1865 (C4141)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The Civil War letters of Henry D. Townsend, Co. B., 3rd Iowa Cavalry (Union) who fought at Bryce's Crossroads and in Price's Missouri raid, September-November, 1864.

Albert Tracy Journal, 1861 (C1273)
0.05 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Copy of a Civil War journal in the manuscript division of the New York Public Library. It was edited by Roy W. Irwin and published in the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, 51 (1956-1957).

George Wesley Trefts Papers, 1936-1962 (C1422)
0.13 cubic feet (6 folders)

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Papers of a photographer and member of he United States 79th Fighter Group stationed in northern Africa and Italy during World War II. Includes correspondence, clippings, and photographs.

William Maclaren Trenholme Letters, 1931-1963 (C3357)
1.25 cubic feet

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Personal letters of William Maclaren Trenholme son of Louise Trenholme Stephens; U.S. naval officer, 1946-1947 and 1951-1953; physicist with General Electric Company, 1948 and 1954-1961; and nuclear physicist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1963.

Leigh and Mary Jane Trowbridge Photograph Collection, 1930-1945 (P0502)
9 photographs

Photos of Round Table Club, Columbia. Also, WWII photos from Leigh Trowbridge's book Operation Leap Frog.

William Lawrence Truman Memoir, 1906, 1976 (C4592)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Recollections of a Confederate soldier, who served in the 1st Missouri Light Artillery from 1861 to 1865, consisting of a 1906 typescript and a 1976 transcription with notes from his great-grandson.

D.M. and J.H. Tucker Papers, 1833-1902 (C0178)
0.2 cubic feet

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Records of a mercantile firm in Fulton, MO. Business, the Civil War, state insane asylum, and politics are discussed. Records of the Tucker and Harris mercantile firm, later the D.M. and J.H. Tucker firm.

E.W. Tucker Papers, 1920-1980 (C4000)
1.2 cubic feet (65 folders)

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The papers of Colonel Eugene W. Tucker, staff member and later executive officer of Kemper Military School, include lecture material, articles, speeches, correspondence, school catalogs, financial reports, and miscellaneous items.

Claude Turner Papers, 1942-1944 (SP0027)
.25 cubic feet (5 folders, 6 photographs)

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The Claude Turner papers consist of letters written by Claude Turner to his family in Webb City during World War II.  Claude served on the USS Spence.          

John Tyler, Jr. Letter, 1862 (C2401)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To William L. Yancey, Montgomery, AL, from Holly Springs, MS, Oct. 15, 1862.

Describes battles of Corinth and Hatchee River. Written by a Confederate major, the son of President Tyler. At the writing of the letter, Tyler was an aide-de-camp on General Sterling Price's staff.

See collection 477 for another copy.

John Tyler Jr. Letter, 1862 (C0477)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To William L. Yancey, Montgomery, AL, from Holly Springs, MS, Oct. 15, 1862.

Describes battles of Corinth and Hatchee River. Written by a Confederate major, the son of President Tyler, who served as an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Sterling Price.

See collection 2401 for another copy.

U. S. Committee on Public Information, Division of Four Minute Men Collection, 1918-1919 (C4453)
0.2 cubic feet (10 folders)

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Includes membership rosters, bulletins, correspondence, speeches, programs, and newsletters from national and state level sections of the Four Minute Men.

U.S. Army, 3196th Signal Service Company Roster, 1945 (C3682)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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"A History of the 3196th Signal Service Company," including roster of name, address, nickname, and date for each member. The group served in Italy during World War II.

U.S. Army, 35th Division, 60th Artillery Brigade, 110th Ammunition Train, Co. F Papers, 1917-1919 (C2931)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a roster of Company F from organization at Camp Doniphan, OK, 24 October 1917, to 5 May 1919. Also included are passenger lists of organizations and casuals returning to the United States.

U.S. Army, Air Force College Training Program, University of Missouri Papers, 1943-1944 (C0058)
1.1 cubic feet (105 folders)

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Course schedules, outlines, flight and class roles, grades, and instructions for teachers concerning policies of Air Corps and teaching methods. Tests for History and Americanism. Correspondence of Rogers Whitmore and Thomas A. Brady.

U.S. Army, Division of the Missouri, Special Order No. 42, 1865 (C3566)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains an order for a board of three army officers to meet at Keokuk, IA, on May 5, 1865, to inspect the general hospitals and post in that city, and to report results to headquarters at St. Louis, MO.

U.S. Army, Quartermaster's Department Papers, 1827-1856 (C2239)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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Papers of Quartermaster's Department, Philadelphia, PA.

United States. Army. Quartermaster's Stores Report, 1863 (C2437)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains quarterly reports of quartermaster's stores made by John H. Doolittle, 31 March 1863.

U.S. Army, Specialized Training Program, Foreign Area and Language Study, University of Missouri Papers, 1943-1944 (C0057)
2.25 cubic feet (167 folders)

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Correspondence, army directives, student records, and other material pertaining to the program and staff of the ASTP Unit at the University of Missouri. Also includes material concerning a study of ASTPs made by Thomas A. Brady for the Rockefeller Foundation.

U.S. Committee on Public Information, Missouri Division of Four-Minute Men Collection, 1918-1919 (CA6285)
0.2 cubic feet

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Four-Minute Men was a volunteer organization created by the U.S. Committee on Public Information and endorsed by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Orators delivered brief speeches on specified topics to "ready-made" audiences in theaters and other venues. The propaganda campaign served to solicit support for the war. L.L. [Loyal Lovejoy] Leonard of St. Louis was the State Director for Missouri. The collection includes national and state materials.

U.S. General Land Office Papers, 1819-1859 (C1901)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains certificates of bounty land in Missouri granted for military service. Inventory with collection.

U.S. Military Government, Detachment B-5 Diary, 1944-1945 (C0445)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Diary kept by a Military Government Detachment unit sent to Okinawa. All activities are recorded en route to Okinawa, and duties of the organization are described in detail. Also a short history of Okinawa and descriptions of the cultural exhibit, historic spots, and burial customs.

United States Military Telegraph (Warrenton, Mo.) Register, 1863 (C2341)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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U.S. military telegrams sent from Warrenton, MO, 1 May-14 December 1863. Concern supplies, materials, troop movements, and other military orders.

U.S. Selective Service System, Missouri Records, 1917-1918 (C2681)
8.7 cubic feet (445 folders)

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Lists of persons by county and district selective service boards whose cards were held by those boards. Arranged alphabetically by county.

U.S. Work Projects Administration, Historical Records Survey of Missouri, 1935-1942 (C3551)
302 cubic feet (24,282 folders); also available on 817 rolls of microfilm

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Correspondence, records, and working files. Originally designed to survey and inventory all county government records, the survey finally included inventories of church records, manuscript collections, vital statistics, American imprints, and federal archives. Incorporates records of the Federal Writers Project for Missouri.

Frank J. Uhlenbrock Collection, 1941-1945 (P0834)
0.4 linear feet

A collection of World War II photographs, most from the Official War Pictures Co, collected by Uhlenbrock, a Marine (March 1943-April 1945, South and Central Pacific). Additionally, colour, fold-out postcard depicting Springfield, MO (1938).

Angus Umphraville Letter, 1819 (C1655)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Smith Thompson, Washington, D.C., from Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 21, 1819.

Umphraville submitted descriptions and illustrations of naval weapons and military engines; described his War of 1812 experiences in the West Indies and Puerto Rico; wrote poem, "The Siege of Baltimore;" and desired a clerkship in Washington.

N. Robert Underhill Papers, 1943-1945, 2017 (C4470)
0.4 cubic feet (8 folders), 16.1 MB of digital files (1 docx, 5 jpgs)

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The collection contains love letters written during World War II from N. Robert “Bob” Underhill to Merrilee Ann Meier of St. Louis during their courtship and shortly after their marriage while Bob was serving in the U.S. Navy in Panama and along the northeastern seaboard of the United States. The collection also includes some family correspondence, a memoir based on the love letters by Bob and Merrilee’s daughter, Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick, and transcripts of the letters as well as digital photographs.

Arthur Unger Papers, 1943-2004 (C4027)
10.8 cubic feet (756 folders), 58 audio cassettes, 2 audio tapes, 4 audio discs, 5 CDs, 1 video cassette

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Arthur Unger was an entertainment journalist who reviewed movies and television shows for the Christian Science Monitor and Ingenue. He edited several magazines as wide-ranging as Mechanix Illustrated and Datebook and toured with the Beatles. The collection includes recordings, transcripts, and notes from his interviews with celebrities, his writings, Beatles publications, and personal materials.

United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 662 (Nevada, Mo.) Minute Book, 1908-1927 (C1275)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Minutes of meetings and miscellaneous papers.

United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 662 (Nevada, Mo.) Record Book, 1895 (C1276)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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List of members, constitution and bylaws, and minutes of meetings.

United Confederate Veterans Committee on History Record Book, 1897 (C1277)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Proceedings of a committee formed for "the preparation and publication of a correct history of the part borne by Missourians in the Confederate Army." Also contains copies of two stories, one attempted in black dialect.

United Confederate Veterans Springfield, Missouri Records, 1894-1915 (R0060)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The United Confederate Veterans, Campbell Camp No. 488 Records contains a microfilm copy of a volume with the records of the United Confederate Veterans, Campbell Camp No. 488 in Springfield, Missouri. The volume includes the constitution and bylaws, minutes of meetings, lists of the members, and miscellaneous papers.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), Robert E. Lee Chapter Records, 1916-1917, 1935 (K0152)
0.01 c.f. (2 folders)

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Annual yearbook of the Chapter includes constitution and by-laws, membership lists, and lists of officers and committee people.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)-Jefferson Davis Chapter Scrapbook, 1924-1936 (K0020)
1 v

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Chapter historian's scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and magazine articles, program announcements, detailing the activities of a UDC chapter in Kansas City, MO.

United Daughters of the Confederacy and Children of the Confederacy Records, 1921-1954 (C4305)
0.95 cubic feet (3 folders, 7 oversize volumes)

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The records contain meeting minutes of the Richmond Greys Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and scrapbooks of the Charlotte Jones Smith Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Dames Chapter Records, 1918-1990s (CA2986)
1.4 cubic feet

Records of a chapter in St. Louis consisting of minutes of chapter and board meetings, 1918-1988; state annual convention programs; by-laws, 1980s; membership lists, 1980s-1990s; HISTORY OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1894-1955; and miscellaneous publications concerning the Civil War.