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Armed Forces

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1133 Collections and/or Records:

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General,  June 30, 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02306025
Scope and Contents

Reed details his duties for the month of June 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 30, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records for Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General,  July 31, 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02306026
Scope and Contents

Reed details his duties for the month of July 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 31, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records for Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army,  April 30, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850020
Scope and Contents

Reed's station and duty report states that he was on duty as Curator of the Army Medical Museum during April 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  April 30, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army,  May 31, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850021
Scope and Contents

Reed's station and duty report states that he was on duty as Curator of the Army Medical Museum during May 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  May 31, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army,  October 31, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850025
Scope and Contents

Reed's station and duty report states that he was on a Board to investigate causes of the prevalence of typhoid fever and on duty as Curator of the Army Medical Museum during September 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 31, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army,  October 31, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850026
Scope and Contents

Reed's station and duty report states that he was on a Board to investigate causes of the prevalence of typhoid fever, investigated buildings at Natural Bridge, Virginia, and was on duty as Curator of the Army Medical Museum during October 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 31, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army,  December 31, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850028
Scope and Contents

Reed's station and duty report states that he was on duty as Curator of the Army Medical Museum during December 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  December 31, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report of an interview with Merritte W. Ireland, by Jessie Daniel Ames,  October 22, 1929

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: 03214001
Scope and Contents

According to Ames, Ireland refuses to include her deceased husband (Roger Post Ames) among the yellow fever heroes. He minimizes Ames' husband role in the yellow fever work, and advises [Jessie Daniel Ames] to give up in her attempt to have him honored.

Dates:  October 22, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report of departure by Walter Reed for the United States Army,  April 1, 1892

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01804003
Scope and Contents

The slip states that Reed is accompanying two companies as a medical officer to the Sisseton and Wappeton Indian Reservation. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  April 1, 1892
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report of the Activities of the United States Public Health Service in the Camp Meade Extra Cantonment Zone, June 30, 1919

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 20
Identifier: 00820001
Scope and Contents

This report details the Army's mosquito control operations around Camp Meade, Maryland.

Dates: June 30, 1919
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Report of the Surgeon General to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1904,  June 30, 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 39
Identifier: 02739001
Scope and Contents

O'Reilly reports on the cases of yellow fever in the Army, and is concerned about the transmission of the disease from Mexico into Texas.

Dates:  June 30, 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report on the conduct of nurse Lena A. Warner,  April 17, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 10
Identifier: 02610001
Scope and Contents

Kean writes about Lena A. Warner's refusal to care for an officer's wife.

Dates:  April 17, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report on Walter Reed, circa 1900

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28
Identifier: 02628053
Scope and Contents

This handwritten account of Reed's military history includes a listing of his military orders from 1875 through 1894. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates: circa 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report on Walter Reed,  January 22, 1903

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28
Identifier: 02628066
Scope and Contents

This document summarizes Reed's promotions and military stations. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  January 22, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Report to the Secretary of War by C.F. Mason,  February 17, 1905

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 02749001
Scope and Contents

Mason reports on the Panama Canal Zone Sanitary Department activities with appendices: A - plan of action; B - departmental organization; C - free distribution of quinine.

Dates:  February 17, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report:Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900, by John R. Kissinger,  circa 1930-1950

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: 05911001
Scope and Contents

Kissinger describes the yellow fever experiments and comments on the men involved. He also describes the experience of suffering from yellow fever and the treatment for the disease. Kissinger remarks on inaccuracies in the play "Yellow Jack." He maintains that he volunteered before Moran.

Dates:  circa 1930-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / <title render="italic">Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900</title>, by John R. Kissinger with related notes from Kissinger

Reports of U.S. fatalities in Cuba,  June 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 3
Identifier: 02303002
Scope and Contents

Telegrams to the War Department report deaths caused by yellow fever from May 8 to May 30, 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Materials relating to U.S. Army yellow fever fatalities in Cuba

Reports of U.S. fatalities in Cuba,  June 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 3
Identifier: 02303008
Scope and Contents

Telegrams to the War Department report deaths from June 1 to June 10, 1900, some by yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Materials relating to U.S. Army yellow fever fatalities in Cuba

Reports of U.S. fatalities in Cuba,  June 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 3
Identifier: 02303010
Scope and Contents

Telegrams to the War Department report individual deaths, including those from yellow fever, from June 10 to June 20, 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Materials relating to U.S. Army yellow fever fatalities in Cuba

Resolution by the Board of Trustees of The Johns Hopkins Hospital concerning Jesse W. Lazear,  December 11, 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 1
Identifier: 02301001
Scope and Contents

The Johns Hopkins Hospital trustees petition Congress for a pension for Mabel Lazear.

Dates:  December 11, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed