Pathfinder #16:
Wars that affected the Southwest:
A partial descriptive list of special collections at the Center

Arrangement of topics is chronological by name of war.

• The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Pub. under the direction of the ... Secretary of War.  Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, 1880-1901.  70 volumes.  Call number E464 .U6.  Each number has a special index.   The general index is shelved in the Delaney Library in the reference section; ask at the Delaney reference counter for the other volumes, which are stored in the basement.
• The Delaney Library also has a collection (C 008) of Southwest atlases, which include two boxes of an Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, in 2 oversize flat boxes of oversize folio volumes, which must be handled with care because they are brittle.  Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, 1891-1895.  Call number E464 .U6.  Shelved in room SW 166 on 34.6 and 34.7 (ask for them and give this shelf information to the Delaney Library staff).
• Collection I 067: Compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers indexes (RG 94) on microfilm.  9 rolls, in microfilm cabinet drawer 6.7.  Indexes only, for records of U.S. soldiers who served in the Civil War in organizations from the territories of New Mexico (National Archives microfilm publication M242, 4 rolls), Arizona (M532, 1 roll), Colorado (M534, 3 rolls), and Utah (M556, 1 roll). On 16 mm. microfilm.
• Collection M 053-066: Charles Wheeler reminiscence and article.  A photocopy of handwritten undated reminiscences of the author's experiences at the front during the U.S. Civil War, from the time he enlisted in 1861.
• Collection F 007: Frank Lake artifacts.  Includes a drum used by Daniel M. Randall when he was a drummer boy in Company3, 20th Regiment, in the Civil War.  Randall, brother of Mrs. Frank Lake (mother of the donor) was age 16 when he enlisted.
• Collection M 217: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War records.  1 document case. Newsletters, minutes and other records of the Thomas E. Bowman Camp No. 12, Department of Colorado and Wyoming, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

Indian wars

• Collection I 017: Cherokee Indian Agency records (RG 75) on microfilm. 14 rolls, in microfilm cabinet drawer 5.8.  Records of agency in Tennessee, including correspondence with officials of the War Dept., Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal commissioners in Indian treaty negotiations, Indian agents, Army officers, Federal and State officials, and private parties. (M208, 14 rolls) Topics include Cherokee economic and social conditions; trade and travel; the work of missionaries; friction between whites and Cherokee and within the tribe; the treaty of 8 July 1817; and the Cherokee migration westward. Some fiscal records and lists of agents.
• Collection I 081: Fort Philip Kearney (or Fetterman) Massacre investigations records (RG 75) on microfilm. 1 roll, in microfilm cabinet drawer 6.11.  Records relating to the investigations of the massacre, involving wars with the Cheyenne and Dakota Indians (National Archives microfilm publication M740).
• Collection I 084: Philip H. Sheridan papers on microfilm. 19 rolls, in microfilm cabinet drawer 4.9.  Selected roll numbers 3, 17, 43-45, 48, 50, 75-76, 80-84, 86, and 88-91, part of a 104 roll microform publication. Incomplete. See printed guide in M 129 (microform finding aids).  Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was an Army officer and author. He was Chief Quartermaster and chief Commissary of the Army of the Southwest, 1861-62, and commanded the Department of the Missouri, 1867-1869 and the Military District of the Missouri, 1869-1878.
• Collection I 070: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General selected general orders and documents re: Fort Lewis (RG 94) on microfilm. 1 roll, in microfilm cabinet drawer 4.9. Early official U.S. government records pertaining to Fort Lewis as a military post. Begins with designation of the cantonment established at Pagosa Springs as Camp Lewis in honor of Lieut. Col. W. H. Lewis "who lost his life in an engagement with hostile Indians on Sept. 28, 1878, at Famished Woman's Fork, Kansas" (dated 26 Oct. 1878) and ends with War Dept. turning over the Fort to the Secretary of the Interior on 16 Feb. 1895. Not in strict chronological order. A very short roll of microfilm.
• Collection I 013: U.S. Secretary of War letters relating to Indian Affairs (RG 75) on microfilm. 10 rolls, in microfilm cabinet drawers 5.3and 6.5.  Correspondence to and from the Secretary of War pertaining to Indian affairs, prior to establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: outgoing correspondence, 1800-1824 (M15, 6 r., indexed) and incoming correspondence, 1800-1823 (M271, 4 rolls).  The Secretary of War was responsible for the conduct of the government's relations with Indian tribes until 1824 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established within the War Department. In 1849, responsibility transferred to the new Interior Department.
• Collection I 048: Winners of the West periodical on microfilm. 2 rolls, in microfilm cabinet drawer 4.8.  "A campaign paper published in the interests of the veterans of all Indian wars, their widows and orphan children" (quoting from the first issue).  A monthly periodical, Dec. 1923-Dec. 28, 1944.  Microfilmed by the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, 1958.

Spanish-American War, 1898, and related topics

• Collection  M 044: Spanish American War printed materials.  1/2 document case.  Printed materials and other historical objects compiled in Durango, Colorado, pertaining to the Spanish American War, 1898-, with particular reference to involvement by residents of the Four Corners region (including Edward Kimball of Kline, Colorado).
• Collection  M 076: Grand Army of the Republic, Sedgwick Post records. 4 boxes and 63 volumes.  Records of the Durango unit. Includes roll book, ritual books, services books, etc. of veterans of the Civil and Spanish American wars who lived in the Durango area.
• Collection F 023: Uniforms collection.  Uniforms and/or insignia from: Spanish American War, Mountain Troop, etc.
• Assorted artifacts used during the Spanish American war and during the Philippine insurrection of 1899-1901. These materials include two bayonets (1 located; located items are noted here by an asterisk*), two stilettos, a folding saw, a machete in its leather case*, a trench knife*, a brush hook*, two cartridge belts* (one of which has a brass belt buckle with the letters MASS on it), a gas mask* (marked as No. 3, donated by George G. West), two canteens (one located*, marked Arther J. Anderson, Co. F., 5th Mass. Inf., Hospital Corp U.S.A., Philippine Insurrection, 1898), a mess kit, a belt with two cartridge pouches and a note inside one pouch stating "cartridge and money-belt taken from a Filipino soldier in 1899 by J A Peterson"*, a United States Army blouse, a United States troop flag belonging to Company G, 3rd Cavalry, a first aid kit, a cartridge, a silk handkerchief, a cigarette case, a white glove, a medal for service in Cuba, and a Chevron. [Also in the box which contained the asterisked items, but not included in the list of this accession: a dark blue uniform jacket (7102015A) with 5 brass buttons with eagles on them, with a label attached to one button stating "blue blouse and kid gloves used for dress purposes in the Philippines by Wm. W. Bay of Durango"--but the blouse and gloves were not in the box.] From the period of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine insurrection. Accession 1971:02015.

World War I and punitive expedition into Mexico, 1914-1918

• Collection M 067: La Plata County history materials.  2.5 document cases.  Includes a La Plata County history scrapbook compiled by students of Olive Cornelius, a folder of Durango Herald issues from the World War I period, and a scrapbook relating to La Plata County residents who were in the services in 1918.
• Collection C 002: Whitney Mexico Punitive Expedition maps.  6 folders.  Maps relating to the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917.  (See also the related photo and printed materials collections.)  Lt. Edward Whitney was an engineer on the staff of General John J. Pershing for the Punitive Expedition to Mexico.
• Collection M 163: Correspondence and printed materials relating to the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917 in which Lt. Edward Whitney was a participant as engineer on the staff of General John J. Pershing.  2 document cases.  Includes buddy letters of World War I veterans, 1971-1973, and issues of the 23rd Engineers News, 1949-1969. (See also the related photo and maps collections.)

World War II, 1939-1945

Left: photo of Mr. Fryer riding his favorite horse to meet with Navajo tribal members at Window Rock, Arizona (where he was then based) in early 1942 to tell them that World War II had begun and to let them know that they would be liable for the draft.  Click here to view more Fryer photos.

• Collection U 011: World War II oral history project records.  1 document case (16 folders).  Tapes, transcripts and related documentation of 15 oral history interviews with Four Corners residents who directly experienced World War II. Includes one folder of obituaries and other project planning records. Project organized by Richard Ellis. Originals of interview releases are in a folder in the collection case file; archival photocopies (made 11/2000) are in the interview folders.
• Collection M 147: World War II Four Corners civilian response printed materials.  1 document case.
• Collection P 029: World War II stereo photos.  1 small box.  Stereographs pertaining to Four Corners residents who directly experienced World War II.
• Collection M 189: Civilian Public Service in Colorado printed materials.  1 document case and 1 records box.  Printed materials related to the Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp #111, 1943-1946, at Jackson Gulch, four miles up a twisting dirt road from Mancos, Colorado, 1943-1946.  This was one of 151 CPS work sites created in the U.S. during World War II, and one of only 4 such camps in Colorado. According to Tom Vaughan, this camp "took up the work of an earlier Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at the same location.
• Collection M 099: Red Cross history of service men and women scrapbooks.  2 volumes.  Clippings about Durangoans in the armed forces, and the Red Cross, during World War II.
• Collection M 090: D. K. Griffith correspondence. 3 document cases.  Letters exchanged between Major/ Lt. Col. D. K. "Dex" Griffith and his wife and others during and after World War II, while he was in the service in North Africa and Europe. Includes some V-Mail.
• In Collection M 001 (Fort Lewis College Archives): Series 11.D.15: World War II personal correspondence of Dean E. H. Bader with students and personnel who were in the Armed Services, 1942-1944.
• In Collection M 001 (Fort Lewis College Archives): Series 11.D.7: Veterans training program records, 1946-1958 (see related records in Series 11.D.4 and Series 20.F.4.9). After World War II, a special program for veterans was established, in a vocational on-the-farm setting; it was funded and supervised by the U.S. Veterans Administration.
• In Collection P 048 (E. Reeseman Fryer photographs): Series 4: North Africa and related topics, photoprints, 1943-1944.  87 photoprints in Box 4, folders 1-4.  Most are of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in North Africa during World War II. 
•  In Collection I 062 (New Mexico mineral resources publications on microfiche): Contributions of New Mexico's Mineral Industry to World War II, by T. D. Benjovsky, compiler, 1947. 2 microfiche.
• Collection P 036: Rohde - Anderson family photographs. 1 document case and 2 binders.  Collection includes family snapshots (most are b/w, some are color) of various sizes, all 4 x 5" or smaller, and a few other items including drivers license id cards and a few family newspaper clippings. (Cf. oral history interview #s 248-249 7/6/89.) In his oral history interview # 249 dated 7/6/89, Byron Rohde describes World War II weapons that he was donating to the Center of Southwest Studies (1989:07002). His oral memoir at about age 74 dated 7/8/1983 is the Center's tape #248.

Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

• In Collection M 032 (Jim Dyer papers): Vietnam service records and correspondence of Jim Dyer (pictured at right).
• M 053-069: Vietnam correspondence of Mark W. Howe: Pháo Binh – A Marine artillery officer’s letters from Vietnam, 1966-67.  1 folder (154 pages).  Transcriptions of letters Mark Howe wrote home from Vietnam. Jim Dyer was his commanding officer part of that time.  His mother saved them and he transcribed them recently.  Digitally accessible online (requires a recent version of the Adobe Reader freeware).
• In Collection M 053-35 (Socialist political printed materials):  Includes a Socialist Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) program for a speech by Fred Halstead at a San Francisco antiwar rally on April 27, 1968.

• Collection M 086: National Guard Operation Desert Storm collection of Southwest Colorado.  Compiled and donated by Jay Farschman, who served with the Colorado National Guard, 928th Ambulance Company.  Personal correspondence, lists, maps, and related artifacts documenting the involvement of Southwest Colorado reservists in the 928th Medical Company Ambulance Corps in Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf.
• The National Guard and Operation Desert Storm : newspaper clippings about the 928th Medical Company (Ambulance) et al. from the Durango Herald : 12 November 1990 through 17 June 1991.  Over-oversize book at the Delaney Library.  Call number DS79.72 .N38 1992.  [Durango, Colo. : Center of Southwest Studies, 1992.]
• In Collection M 086 (Ben Nighthorse Campbell papers): Operation Desert Storm printed materials, 1990 Aug. 10–Sept. 22.

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