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Military History

2019

Louisiana Tech University

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Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Material concerning donor who was a guard in hospital stationed at Camp Ruston (1943-46).


Eugenia Kennimer Welch Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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


Felix Pierre Poche Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Felix Pierre Poche Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Diary of a young Confederate Army officer kept 1863-1865, including eyewitness account of two 1864 battles in North Louisiana; after the War, Poche an attorney from St. James Parish, Louisiana, was elected a state senator and later an associate judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court.


Franco Montecchi Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning Franco Montecchi, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.


Gaylord Lincoln Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials related to Camp Ruston.


Glynn R. Kinnimer Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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


Gladys Brand Stinson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Gladys Brand Stinson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials donated by former U.S. Army nurse who worked at Camp Ruston P.O.W. camp.


Hank Fraser Interview, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Interview of Hank Frasier.


Heinz Hennrich Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Items of Heinz Heinnrich, former German P.O.W. at Camp Ruston.


Helen K. Evans Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Helen K. Evans Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Material from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston acquired by camp cook Walt Hintz.


Israel Shreve Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Israel Shreve Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Correspondence of Colonel Israel Shreve, who served with Washington during the Revolutionary War; provides information on battles, conditions, etc., during the Revolution, including Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, Brandywine.


James L. Hogan Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

James L. Hogan Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Afrika Korps pattern eagle and swastika. This artifact was given to American civilian camp employee, James L. Hogan by German POW Robert Kopriwa. Also, includes a book entitled The Brothers Karamazov written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Random House in 1943.


Janis Scogin Pierce And James Lee Pierce Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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 Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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 Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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 Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photographs of Hood and family.


Joseph J. Corneille Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Joseph J. Corneille Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photocopied papers of the Joseph J. Corneille family.


Joseph J. Corneille Record Book, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Joseph J. Corneille Record Book, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Confederate Army soldier and businessman from New Orleans. Most of his military service was spent in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes and later in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he spent several months ill in a hospital. He rejoined his unit, was captured near Jackson, Mississippi, in July 1863, and was released May 18, 1865.


Kellam Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Kellam Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Letters received by members of the Kellam and related families, prominent residents and plantation owners in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.


Margery Kidd Nicholl And Gertrude Mayfield Brown Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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.


Margaret Pesnell Colvin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Margaret Pesnell Colvin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Painting by Camp Ruston P.O.W., photographs of prisoners' paintings and of rocking chair constructed by them, and service records of donor's father James F. Pesnell, a member of the American staff at the camp.


Mark Scalia Research Materials Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mark Scalia Research Materials Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photocopied materials collected by Mark Scalia from doing research for graduate history papers including letters, pamphlet and publications.


Martha M. Mccardell Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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 Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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 Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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


Mrs. David Lyons Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mrs. David Lyons Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Gift by prisoner to donor's father, G.H. Cole, a member of the U.S. staff at the camp.


Nicola Mattiace Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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


Otto Fernholz Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Contemporary identified pfotographs of Camp Ruston buildings, model castles, statues, and of the grave of a German soldier; maps of Camp Ruston annotated by donor, a German former prisoner at Camp Ruston; donor's list of former POWs in Louisiana.


Pete Sterling Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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 Jan 2019

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

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.