Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to her sister, Mrs. James D. (Ethel) Withgott.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to her sister, Jane Steel.

George Armstrong Official Correspondence and Documents, 1918-1919; includes military papers.

Misc. Personal Letters, to George and Nell Floss Steel from friends and family, 1912-1916

Misc. Personal Letters, to George Armstrong from friends and family, 1917

Misc. Personal Letters, to George Armstrong from friends and family, 1917

Diploma, George Armstrong, Corporal in 13th Recruit Co., General Service Infantry, 1 Jan 1909
Diploma, George Armstrong, Corporal in 10th Recruit Co., General Service Infantry 17 April 1909
Diploma, George Armstrong, Sergeant in 10th Recruit Co., General Service Infantry 1 June 1909
Diploma, George Armstrong, Sergeant in 10th Recruit Co., General Service Infantry 13 Dec. 1911
Diploma, George Armstrong, Corporal in Co. F of 27th Regiment, Infantry 15 Jan. 1914
Diploma, George Armstrong, Corporal in 10th Recruit Co., General Service Infantry 26 Sept. 1914
Diploma, George Armstrong, Sergeant in 10th Recruit Co., General Service Infantry 21 March 1916
Diploma, Nell Floss Steel, Protestant Hopsital Assoc. Training School for Nurses 25 Dec. 1908

• Six notebooks or exercise tablets, each measuring 26 x 21 cm.
• Five of the exercise tablets have red cloth taped binding at the tops, with white machine ruled pages and white paper covers, illustrated with a design which includes the United States flag with 44 gold stars and thirteen stripes on it, aloft against a pale blue sky, with "THE STARS AND STRIPES" in gold letters outlined in red at the top.
• Since these tablets couldn't have been produced at least until after 1890 when Wyoming became the forty-fourth state in the Union, this copy of the diary had to have been copied out twenty-five years or more after the original entries were made in 1862-1865.
• The sixth exercise tablet is similar in size, but with green tape binding at the top, a buff-colored cover, and a design incorporating a leaf and vine design in which the words "A COLUMBUS EXERCISE TABLET, PRICE 5 CTS" is divided in the center by a round seal of a sun rising over a tree-surrounded field of harvested wheat sheaves labeled "THE SEAL OF OHIO LINE". Below is an underlined space labeled "Name" and beside it another underlined space labeled "Teacher".
• All six notebooks have been rubber-stamped in black ink on covers and all pages, probably by a later owner in the twentieth century, with a three-line label: "Civil War Diary of, John Henry Bliler, 1862-1863-1864-1865".
• Front covers of the notebooks are also inscribed in ink as well, apparently in John Henry Bliler's hand, with a numbering sequence as follows:
  • "no 2 of 7 AND No. 1 of 7"
  • "No 3 OF 7, From November 11, 1863, To May 16 [carat] inclusive 1864"
  • "NO 4 OF 7, From May 17, 1864, To [unclear] 3rd [ditto i.e. 1864] inclusive"
  • "NO 5 OF 7, From October 4, 1864, to November 30 inclusive 1864"
  • "From November 30, 1865 to April 12, 1863 [Note: part of this in pencil to replace information from a torn area on cover], No 6 OF 7"
  • "No 7 OF 7"
• Pages of the diary are numbered continuously in the lower right corner of each notebook in pencil: 1-9 [i.e. 8], 9, 11-25 [notebook "No 2"]; 26-44 [notebook "No 3"]; 45-64 [notebook "No 4"]; 65-83 [notebook "No 5"]; 84-106 [notebook "No 6"]; 107-123 [notebook "No 7"].
• The penciled page numbers and a few other notes were probably made by a later owner of the diary, to construct the index which accompanies the photostatic copy of the original pages and the typewritten transcript held in a blue three-ring binder, described in Series 2. The text of the black-inked three-line rubber stamped label on the notebooks' covers and pages match exactly that of the typed label affixed to the front cover of this blue three-ring binder.
• Each of the first five exercise books is also stamped in blue ink on the cardboard back cover with a three-line label: "From STEIGLER BROS., 520 Central Avenue, HOT SPRINGS, - ARK." Steigler Brothers is a bookstore and may have been the original purveyor of the blank exercise books.
• Entries written by Bliler are in pencil and black or blue ink. All pages have come apart from the top bindings of the exercise tablets. Some water damage obscures a few entries, and a very few pages have torn edges by which portions of entries have been lost irretrievably, but the handwriting is overall very legible.

• Photocopy made by the repository in February 2003 on archival paper to use as a surrogate, or for reproduction purposes of all materials in the notebook, as well as the condensation of the diary.

"A Cold and Lasting Peace" (short story, 2020?) - HeroicHearts_AColdAndLastingPeace_Caine.docx (Microsoft Word file)

Red Hot Rain (unpublished), partial draft typescript, RedHotRain_Caine_draft1.docx (Microsoft Word document)

This folder includes the following:

• Article written by McMurrey called “San Jacinto County Boys in the Service,” describing the weather and status of the Y-Force in China.
• Two-page article written by Barbara McMurrey Hyde and Beverly Fae McMurrey giving a family history and history on their father’s life.
• Y-Force casualty list from January 1, 1944 to October 24, 1944

This folder contains miscellaneous photographs, 30 in total, of McMurrey’s 1944 funeral, Kunming, Burma Road, the Chinese Memorial Gardens, the 1944 gravesite, Barbara McMurrey Hyde, Beverly Fae McMurrey, Shan Stodter, Carl Hyde, Wen Jiang, Tengchong, the Salween River, the mayor of Baoshong, the Mekong Delta, Chinese villagers, both the old and new headstones commemorating the American liaisons, the War Museum in Tengchong, and Sung Shan Mountain.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to George Armstrong, 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to George Armstrong, 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to George Armstrong, 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to George Armstrong, 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to George Armstrong, 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to George Armstrong, 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Letters from George Armstrong to Nell Steel Armstrong, Jan. 1913-1920, and undated.

Camp Waitman, Arkansas.

Camp Weightman, Arkansas. January 15, 1862

Camp Organization, Arkansas. March 1, 1862

Camp Nall(?), Arkansas. March 31, 1862

Corinth, Mississippi. May 12, 1862

Camp near Saltillo, Mississippi. August 20, 1862

Baldwin, Mississippi. September 7, 1862

Washington, Arkansas. September 13, (1862)

Camilla, Georgia. October 20, 1862

Aunt Honeybunch to Jo Fred. TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy. April 20, 1953

Photocopy of four Company Muster Roll sheets regarding John B. Belcher. (1 leaf)

Beavers, Virgil [NY, NY] to Mommy and Poppa [Dr. and Mrs. Virgil Beavers, China, TX]. 5. ALS, 1 leaf, photocopy. Attached is half of the original envelope. February 28, 1945

War Ration Book issued to Virgil Beavers [Cairo, Illinois].

Newspaper clipping "Poem Goes to Battle With Men" from San Antonio Express. undated

Color photograph (3.5 x 5) of John Bell Belcher's (1840-1901) tombstone in China, Jefferson County, Texas.

The following materials are all from "Gordon and Belcher Families" by Roy Ingersoll, Watsonville, CA.

Photocopy of Title page. (1 leaf)

Photocopy of original army voucher. (1 leaf)

Photocopy of original General Affidavit signed by John B. Belcher regarding Monroe M. Belcher. Logan County, Kentucky. (1 leaf) March 29, 1889

Photocopy of original Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior form. John B. Belcher. (1 leaf) January 15, 1898

Photocopy of the original form stating Pensioner Dropped from United States Pension Agency. (1 leaf) August 31, 1903

Photocopy of original pension voucher. (1 leaf)

Information regarding the Gordon and Belcher family history. (typed, 7 leaves)

Article "At the College", discusses Miss Emma, who teaches Professor J. R. Cole's [Sr.] class in his stead. May 2, 1884

Article "Monday Night, June 19", discusses a gold medal contest where Professor [James Reid] Cole, Department of English Language and Literature, distributed gold medal awards to students. Undated

Article "Gen. Lewis Draws Out an Explanation" discusses the faculty change of J. R. Cole to be nominated for a name change to Agricultural and Mechanical College. March 24, 1881

Article "James Cole Opened School in 1889", discusses the significance of James Cole starting a military school named "Classical and Military School" in 1889. November 2, 1970

Article discussing son of James Cole, "Jimmie" Cole's building projects including the Bataan Memorial Methodist hospital and the Trinity Church in Albuquerque, NM. From newsletter O come, let us worship. September 4, 1952 (copy, 31 pages)

A short blurb of "Jimmie" Cole's recognition in The Christian Advocate and his building accomplishments, from the Southern Union publication. November 1952 (page 14, copy)

Seven Decades of My Life, an autobiography of the life of James Reid Cole [Sr.] that gives a look into his life at TAMC and in the military. 1883

Experiences at Texas A&M as a member of the Corps, emphasis placed on year as a Fish, (Freshman), in 1939. Discusses the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the roles and impact of Aggies during World War Two. Also discussed integration and international students at Texas A&M. Class of 1943.