The Eben Swift papers, 1870-1936.

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The Eben Swift papers, 1870-1936.

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Contains personal and military correspondence (1870-1924) including correspondence regarding Major Carl F. McKinney; biographical material on the Swift family (n.d.); newspaper clippings on: World War I and the 308th Infantry Battalion (1919); meetings and registers of the Order of Indian Wars of the United States (1936); programs of 307th Infantry (1927-30); miscellaneous materials from the U.S. Army Transport Ship Barry (n.d.) and a report by Swift entitled: MILITARY EDUCATION OF ROBERT E. LEE, WITH SOME ComparisonS (1926?). Also includes a large scrapbook entitled MEMORY AND FELLOWSHIP BOOK presented to Katherine Swift (1910) which contains programs, pictures and memorabilia relating to her life.

1 box + 1 scrapbook (30 x 41 cm.)

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7133187

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Swift, Eben, 1854-1938

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Born in 1854. Swift was in the U.S. Army as Second Lieutenant, 5th Cavlary (1876), 1st Lieutenant (1884), Captain (1893), Major (1903), Lt. Colonel (1911), Colonel (1912), Brig. General (1916), Major General (1917). He served in the Indian campaigns and in various western posts (1870's-1880's); commanded troops in Cuba and Puerto Rico (1898-99); became an instructor at Infantry and Cavalry School (1904-06) and Army War College (1906-10) and observed the Russo-Japanese War in Manchur...

McKinney, Carl F.

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Order of the Indian Wars

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Swift family.

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Swift, Katherine

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United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Infantry Regiment, 307th.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...