Samuel J. Ovenshine papers, 1813-1932.

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Samuel J. Ovenshine papers, 1813-1932.

Contains the following types of materials: diary, correspondence, maps, playbills at frontier forts, personnel documents, memoirs, ephemera. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: 1815-1846; Indian Wars; Civil War -- Trans-Mississippi -- Far West; Reconstruction; 1865-1897; Spanish-American War -- Pacific; World War I (WWI). Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 5th United States (U.S.) Infantry Regiment; 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment; 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment; Provisional Bridage, Dept. of the Gulf; 1st Brigade, Independent Division, VIII (8th) Corps; 1st Brigade, 2nd Division and 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, VIII Corps (1898). General description of the collection: The Samuel Ovenshine papers include biographies of a general officer's career 1861-1899; correspondence with wife; diary detailing service in 5th Infantry Regiment after Little Big Horn; memoir of reconstruction in Texas; service in Philippines during Spanish-American War; 1861 letters from wife describing meeting Nathaniel Lyon; and relative's 1858 letter describing Santa Fe Trail and life in Southwest (1826-1831).

1 box.

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Lyon, Nathaniel, -1861

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Nathaniel Lyon (1818-1861), soldier and author, was born in Ashford, Conn. A graduate of West Point, he served in the U.S. Army as lieutenant in Florida fighting Seminole Indians, at Sackets Harbor, N.Y., as captain in Mexico during the war (1845-1848), and in "Bleeding" Kansas. Lyon was also a well-known political commentator. He is best known for his leadership at the 1861 battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., as a result of which was that Missouri remained in the Union during the Civil War. ...

Ovenshine, Samuel J., Mrs.

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Ovenshine, Samuel J.

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 5th.

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