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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John Cornock correspondence, 1847-1848</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cornock, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1829-1912</namePart>
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  <abstract>ALsS (1847 May 15-1848 March 4) from Cornock to his sister, Mary Cornock, and ALS (1848 April 7) to Ann Knight relating chiefly to his service with the U.S. Army 3rd Dragoons Regiment during the Mexican-American War.  Cornock describes his enlistment under the alias, John C. White; camp life at Fort Hamilton (N.Y.); and troop movements and skirmishes in Mexico.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army soldier serving in the Mexican-American War.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cornock, Mary</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Knight, Ann</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1848</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Military life</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Dragoons Regiment, 3rd.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mexican War, 1846-1848</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Fort Hamilton (N.Y.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Soldiers</occupation>
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