Content Description This collection contains correspondence compiled by Margie Meagher.The majority of the collection is composed of letters between Margie Meagher and David Allen, Bill Kaufman,Roger M. Fields, and Michael Price, Smitty, John Lynch, and J.W. Delaney. There are letters from a man named Edwin to his mother during his time in the Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association, Imperial Recreation Club, and War Camp Community Service. This collection also contains correspondence between Mr. and...

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This collection includes eighty two black and white photographs that depict American life at a military base in Virginia. Situated during the Korean War, these photographs mainly feature soldiers. However, couples, women, children, food preparation, and landscapes are also included in the collection. The collection belonged to a soldier stationed at Fort Lee and Fort A. P. Hill in Virginia in 1950. The photos were likely taken by a member of the Quartermaster Corps.

Content Description This collection contains a letter written by an unknown Union Army Civil War (1861-1865) solider in Newport News, Virginia dated Jan 9, circa 1863. The solider wrote to his sister about the conditions of the soldier's camp. In his description of the camp, he describes the amount of soldiers camped and the size of the camp. He writes that twenty soldiers were sick "with a bad cold." He also wrote the soliders were protecting five union families from the rebel forces. When he went scouting,...