Harley Bascom Ferguson Papers, . 1892-1941

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Harley Bascom Ferguson Papers, . 1892-1941

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Harley Bascom Ferguson, of Waynesville, N.C., graduated from West Point in 1897 and served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, retiring in 1939 as a major general. The collection includes papers pertaining to Ferguson's domestic and foreign military assignments, particularly to service in the China Relief Expedition, 1901; the raising of the U.S.S. in Havana harbor, Cuba, 1910-1911; and flood control on the Mississippi River, 1932-1939. There also is information on his World War I service as a general of engineers in France and commander of the Newport News (Va.) port of embarkation, and his work with industrial mobilization in the office of Assistant Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, 1921-1927. Maine

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Ferguson, Harley B. (Harley Bascom), 1875-1968

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Harley Bascom Ferguson (1875-1968), of Waynesville, N.C., graduated from West Point in 1897 and served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. During his military service he was stationed in Cuba, 1898; the Phillippines, 1899; and as chief engineer of the China Relief Expedition, 1900, of the Boxer War. He was also district engineer in Montgomery, Ala., 1907-1909; the executive officer in charge of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor, 1910-1911; and district engineer in Milwaukee, Wis., 1913...