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Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Records:

Letter to William Pierce

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P481
Overview

Letter written by C.C. Andrews at Fort Leavenworth to his friend, William Pierce, in Boston on September 11, 1854. In the letter Andrews describes the climate, gives a brief description of the area and discusses the slavery issue; in particular the pro-slavery people from Missouri plan to cross the border to vote in the Kansas election.

Dates: September 11, 1854

Letters of Forrest W. Bassett (Company A, 6th Field Battalion, U.S. Signal Corps), while in training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 612
Overview

This collection consists of eighty-one letters and two postcards written from July 1917 to May 1918 by U.S. Army Signal Corpsman Forrest W. Bassett of Beloit, Wisconsin, while stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Most of Bassett's letters are to Ava Marie Shaw of Beloit, to whom he writes of his affection and of his drills and training for World War I military service as a radio operator.

Dates: 1917 - 1918