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John F. Brown, Jr.

Description: Photograph of young boy, identified as John F. Brown, Jr., standing with legs wide apart, holding a stickball stick in each hand, feather in hair, three horizontal stripes of paint on each cheek, loin-cloth and neck cloth.
Date: 1925~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Battalion "F"

Description: Panoramic photograph of the members of Battalion "F" 343rd F.A. posing outdoors at Camp Merritt, New Jersey in front of several buildings.
Date: June 2, 1919
Creator: Watts Studio
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Getting Our Equipment Soon - I Hope So Anyway": Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, and American Artillery in World War I

Description: Article describes how Camp Doniphan on the Fort Sill Reservation functioned as a training center for American troops in World War I. Due to the large influx of recruits and lack of supplies and equipment, the soldiers were underprepared for actual combat, and their difficulties are reflected in personal accounts.
Date: Spring 2017
Creator: Prince, Justin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Comanche Killer or Commentator? Captain Marcy the Ethnographer

Description: Article examines the life and military career of Captain Randolph B. Marcy of the Fifth Infantry, who served as both a soldier and ethnographer in his observance of the Comanche people. Cliff Trafzer explores insights about the Comanches from the man himself, as well as societal attitudes surrounding Native American tribes and Anglo-American settlers in the 1850s.
Date: Spring 1980
Creator: Trafzer, Clifford
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Crisis of Command: The Hindman/Pike Controversy over the Defense of the Trans-Mississippi District

Description: Article describes the conflict that occurred between two Confederate officers, General Thomas C. Hindman and General Albert Pike, over the defense of Indian Territory. Thomas W. Kremm and Diane Neal discuss how this conflict impacted the military situation in the area.
Date: Spring 1992
Creator: Kremm, Thomas W. & Neal, Diane
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Butternut and Blue: Confederate Uniforms in the Trans-Mississippi

Description: Article describes the issues faced by the Confederate Army when their government could not supply uniforms for the troops while they were in the field, contributing to their ragtag appearance. Whit Edwards dwells on some of the difficulties this caused, including the yellowed look of unlaundered uniforms creating the "butternut" nickname for troops.
Date: Winter 1995
Creator: Edwards, Whit
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Military Burial at Lake Altus

Description: Article provides a detailed account of the discovery and excavation of a military burial at Lake Altus. James B. Shaeffer explores the investigation of artifacts and remains that determined the skeleton to belong to a United States army soldier, and how that investigation is ongoning.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Shaeffer, James B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2001

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Louis H. Coleman, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. It also includes a document about the Garrison quilt, a quilt donated by the great-grandson of Stephen A. Lewis, the Union soldier who created it, and a document that provides a descriptive bibliography of secondary sources related to the Green Corn Rebellion.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Armstrong, Connie G.; Winchester, Jean A. & Hanne, Daniel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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