Judge Ferris Shoemaker papers, 1861-1866.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Judge Ferris Shoemaker papers, 1861-1866.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63937864

Correspondence and diaries relating to Shoemaker's service as a petty officer in the Marine Corps, attached to the U.S.S. Saranac on the Pacific Station during the Civil War; includes information on the French intervention in Mexico. Papers also relate to abolition, and Shoemaker's interpretation of public opinion on matters of politics and expansion.

.3 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7906096

Cornell University Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Shoemaker, Judge Ferris.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr9qnv (person)

United States. Marine Corps

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pp2x8f (corporateBody)

The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...