Correspondence of Nelson A. Miles [manuscript], 1892-1903.

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Correspondence of Nelson A. Miles [manuscript], 1892-1903.

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Miles writes to McClure regarding articles and his memoirs for McClure. With these are magazine photographs of Miles and a clipped account from the "St. Louis Star" of his hand to hand battle with Chief Lame Deer in 1877.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925

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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...

Lame Deer, Sioux chief, d. 1877.

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...