TY  - GEN
AU  - Pershing,John J.
AU  - Pershing,John J.
AU  - Pershing,Helen F.
TI  - John J. Pershing papers,
KW  - Pershing family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916
KW  - American Expeditionary Forces
KW  - War Department
KW  - General Staff
KW  - Comisión Plebiscitaria de Tacna y Arica
KW  - United States Military Academy
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Wars
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
KW  - China
KW  - Manchuria
KW  - Japan
KW  - Spanish-American War, 1898
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Tacna-Arica question
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - France
KW  - Chile
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Peru
KW  - Europe
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Fort William McKinley (Philippines)
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Revolution, 1910-1920
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Philippine American War, 1899-1902
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available; no. 19,612; Microfilm edition produced from originals in Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1987
N2  - Correspondence, diaries, speeches, statements, writings, notebooks, orders, biographical material, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, maps, posters, photographs, and other papers primarily documenting Pershing's career in the U.S. Army, especially as commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.  Documents his military service in the Indian campaigns in the American West; the Spanish-American War, 1898, in Cuba; the Philippine American War, 1899-1902, at Fort William McKinley, Philippines; and the Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916.  Also documents his service as military attaché in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, as chief of staff, U.S. War Department, until 1925; and as president of the Comisión Plebiscitaria de Tacna y Arica in efforts to establish the boundary between Chile and Peru, 1925-1926.  Includes greetings from French municipalities (1919) containing expressions of appreciation and gratitude to the U.S. and to Pershing; notebooks documenting his student years at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; material pertaining to his goodwill tours of Europe and Latin America; drafts of Pershing's book titled My Experiences in the World War (1931) and his unpublished memoirs; and family papers including correspondence and diaries of Pershing's wife, Helen F. Pershing
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013112
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013112.3
ER  -