United States. Marine Corps
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
David Horwitz papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947538]
Identifier: 2759
Scope and content
Diary of David Horwitz, June 25, 1942 to April 14, 1943, including descriptions of the Guadalcanal Campaign; five letters, August to October 1942, from David Horwitz to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Horwitz. Also, one discharge certificate, May 23, 1943; photograph and five clippings; maps of Lunga area, Guadalcanal, October 1942; calendar; and poetry.
Dates:
1942-1943.
H. William Fogle papers
Collection
Identifier: 6781
Abstract
Memoir, "Letter to Ellie - 2007," recounting a love affair with a young woman from Connecticut that took place during the author's undergraduate years at Cornell University. The story, largely told through letters and poems, begins with his boyhood in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, recalls their 1967 meeting in New Haven, and continues through his service with the U.S. Marine Corps and subsequent studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. The tale ends with his marriage to...
Dates:
1967-2015.
Judge Ferris Shoemaker papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065177705]
Identifier: 809
Scope and content
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.
Dates:
1861-1866.