Harley Bascom Ferguson papers, 1892-1941 [manuscript].

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Harley Bascom Ferguson papers, 1892-1941 [manuscript].

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Papers pertaining to Ferguson's military assignments in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, particularly to service in the China Relief Expediton, 1901; the raising of the U.S.S. "Maine" in Havana harbor, 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 F. Davis, 1921-1927.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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