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Donna Belcher Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Books from the library of U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston, including one book annotated by prisoner.

Eliza Roberts Cowper Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials on Cowper's relative, William Paul Roberts of North Carolina, Confederate general; materials of North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy; programs of meetings, theme papers regarding the "Lost Cause."

Emma Mcdonald Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Reminiscence of Women’s Army Corps training center at Camp Ruston by WAC stationed there.

Eugenia Kennimer Welch Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials concerning U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston.

Glynn R. Kinnimer Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Photograph of donor as a teenager sitting on ruins of model castle constructed by Camp Ruston prisoners of war.

Hank Fraser Interview, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Interview of Hank Frasier.

Janis Scogin Pierce And James Lee Pierce Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Miscellaneous collection of memorabilia of Louisiana Tech University alumni over the years.

"The Civil War In Tensas Parish, Louisiana: A Community History", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Master's thesis concerning the Civil War in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, written by Jeffrey Alan Owens.

John B. Wise Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letters of a young Confederate soldier in Virginia to his mother and brother in or near Greenwood, Louisiana.

John Bell Hood Photographs, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Photographs of Hood and family.

Margery Kidd Nicholl And Gertrude Mayfield Brown Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials of the Kidd and Mayfield families, early residents of Ruston, Louisiana; contains muster-out roll of Co. F, First Regiment of Louisiana Infantry from Ruston, 1898, and related records, interviews with Gertrude Mayfield Brown related to Brown and to Louisiana Industrial Institute, items regarding Ruston College and Louisiana Industrial Institute.

Martha M. Mccardell Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Historical memorabilia from the donor's student years at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.

Mary Snelling Duchaney Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp, Camp Ruston, acquired by donor while working as a camp laboratory technician.

Mckinney Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," vols. 2, 3-7, 10-12.

Nicola Mattiace Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Material concerning Nicola Mattiace, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.

Pete Sterling Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Contemporary photographs of ships, planes, and personnel of U.S.S. Task Force Guadalcanal, which captured the German U-505 submarine, whose officers and crew were housed secretly at Camp Ruston. Donor served on U.S.S. Guadalcanal

Plase E. Maxey Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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U.S. Army uniform, sleeping bag, and service records of Winnfield, Louisiana native Sgt. Plase E. Maxey, who entered service at Camp Livingston, Louisiana; was separated at Camp Shelby, Mississippi; and served as an artillery gun crewman in the campaigns of Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, southern France, the Rhineland, and in central Europe.

Civil Neighbors To Violent Foes: Guerrilla Warfare In Western Virginia During The Civil War, Lauren Michelle Milton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

“Civil Neighbors to Violent Foes” researches the effect of guerrilla warfare in West Virginia during a national war and statehood movement, and the impact that emotions had on the people of the state. When President Lincoln won the election in 1860, secession was inevitable and war a likely possibility. At the time, West Virginia was still a part of Virginia, but old state political divisions, combined with the current national political divisions, fueled the fire for a new state, separate from Virginia and loyal to the Union. It would take West Virginia two years from the time delegates began holding …

Kline Collection Finding Aid, Casey Bush, Robyn Conroy

Strassler Center Archival Collection Finding Aids

This collection was purchased in 1997 through the generosity of the following donors: Michael J. Leffell ’81 and Lisa Klein Leffell ’82, the Sheftel Family in memory of Milton S. Sheftel ’31, ’32 and the proceeds of the Carole and Michael Friedman Book Fund in honor of Elisabeth “Lisa” Friedman of the Class of 1985

The collection contains books, pamphlets, magazines, guides, journals, newspapers and screenplays related to Jewish history, German history, World War II, and the Holocaust. Of the at least 3,600 volumes, valued at approximately $300,000, 60% are in English, 30% in German, and 10% in other languages …

Camp Ruston Artifacts - American Section, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Artifacts from American section of Camp Ruston.