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Worthen, Amos Henry
Collection — Box: 229
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2967
Dates:
Created: Date missing
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Manuscript Collection
Worthington, Harriet E.
Collection — Box: 229
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2968
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Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Wright, Annette S.
Collection — Box: 232
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3029
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Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Wright, Benjamin Green
Collection — Box: 190
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2348
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Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Wright, Erastus
Collection — Box: 229
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2963
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Created: Date missing
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Manuscript Collection
Wright, Marcus Joseph
Collection — Box: 229
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2969
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Created: Date missing
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Manuscript Collection
WWII Soldiers Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC712
Abstract
In 1993 the Illinois Historical Society placed articles in newspapers around the sate announcing its intent to collect oral histories of people who had lived through WWII. As stated they wanted oral histories of “the common people’s memories.” Some of the WWII veterans responded by sending diaries kept during the war and others sent written remembrances. The respondents included soldiers from the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, a prisoner of war and a man who had...
Dates:
1940-1945, 1990-1995
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Wyatt B. Stapp Mexican-American War roster
Collection — Box: 85
Identifier: MS-SC1471
Scope and Contents
Roster of soldiers in Captain Stapp's company who returned to Monmouth, Illinois from Mexico. States that sixty-three men had left for the war of which 22 died, 1 deserted and 9 were discharged, leaving 31 names on the list of returnees.
Dates:
Created: Circa 1848
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Wyatt, William
Collection — Box: 100
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 1698
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Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Wylie, Alexander E.
Collection — Box: 119
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 1933
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Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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