Clayman C. Myers papers, 1824-1930, undated.

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Clayman C. Myers papers, 1824-1930, undated.

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Contains the following type(s) of materials: clippings, drawings. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: 1815-1846, 1848-1860, 1865-1897, 1899-1917, 1920s, 1930s. General description of the collection: Clayman C. Myers papers include photocopies of scrapbook of clippings compiled - or at least donated by Commander Clayman Myers, Jr. Many clippings concern coastal defense and land and naval heavy ordnance in the last 2 decades of the 19th century particularly the early 1890's. Some focus on the Venezuelan Crisis of 1895. Another important item is a rebuttal by David S. Stanley, aided by John M. Schofield, of charges leveled by Jacob D. Cox against Stanley's behavior at the Battle of Franklin. Non-American items include drawings of French uniforms in 1824, 1853, and 1870; pictures of German and Italian uniforms in 1885, and a trace of the British camp at Kabul in 1879. The few 20th century clippings concern social matters, not military history.

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Myers, Clayman C.

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Stanley, David Sloane, 1828-1902

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Staneley was born (1828) in Chester, Ohio; graduated from West Point (1852); served at various army posts (1852-1861) in Texas, California, Kansas, and Arkansas; and fought in the Civil War, with major engagements at Corinth (1862), the Atlanta Campaign, and in Tennessee (1864). Stanley was mustered out in 1866, served in Indian campaigns in the West, and led an expedition (1873) to the Yellowstone River. He retired from the army in 1892 and died in Washington, D.C. in 1902. His military promoti...