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Military record of Albert Leopold Mills

Military record of Albert Leopold Mills

This document reports the significant moments in Albert Leopold Mills’s military career. Highlights include his extensive career as a military instructor, his involvement in campaigns against the Crow and Sioux, as well as the battles at Santiago and Las Guasimas in Cuba, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Colonel John W. Vrooman reports in a letter to William Loeb, which encloses this document, that this copy represents what was contained within the “beautiful engrossed album containing nineteen parchment pages enclosed in a handsome leather cover.” The album was a souvenir at the Union League Club dinner celebrating General Mills on August 29, 1906.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-06

Creator(s)

Vrooman, John W. (John Wright), 1844-1929

In cowboy-land

In cowboy-land

Theodore Roosevelt writes of the American Western frontier and his experiences there, along with some of the stories he heard about the lawless days of the area. The article includes drawings by Frederic Remington.

Collection

Denver Public Library

Creation Date

1893-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919