William Mitchell Correspondence
1888-1922, 1927, undated
- Mitchell, William, 1879-1936
Micro 293
1 reel of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society
(Map)
Correspondence of military leader William (Billy) Mitchell, including letters written as a grammar school student at Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin; as a commissioned officer in the Army Signal Corps from camps in the United States, Cuba, and the Philippines during the war with Spain, 1898-1901; and as an officer following the war from camps in mainland United States and from Alaska where Mitchell assisted in developing telegraph communications. The collection also includes incomplete correspondence from Mitchell as an officer serving on the General Staff in Washington, D.C. and on observation tours in Europe prior to World War I; as aviator, brigadier general, and head of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps during World War I; and as publicity-minded Assistant Chief of Air Service following the war. Also present are several letters written by his first wife, Caroline Stoddard Mitchell, and his daughter Harriet; and a brief exchange with the D.A.R. Boulder Committee concerning a monument for a Revolutionary War ancestor.
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