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Infantry at Fort Screven, near Savannah, Georgia. At this same time, Marshall became commanding officer of District F ofthe Civilian Conservation Corps. The FORT MOULTRIE correspondence (1933) documents Marshall's few months as commander of the Eighth Infantry Regiment at Fort Moultrie, near Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 1933. The fourth subgroup treats Marshall's years in Chicago as senior instructor to the ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD (1933-1936). The VANCOUVER BARRACKS subgroup (1936-1938) deals with Marshall's assignment to command the Fifth Infantry Brigade at Vancouver Barracks, Washington. These five subgroups are made up entirely of correspondence files. Each subgroup contains general correspondence which is chronologically arranged. Included with the correspondence are memoranda, extracts of orders, special orders, and field orders. Most of these papers deal with personal business or are private correspondence with friends and associates; some semi-official business is represented. Marshall wrote a great number of letters of commendation and recommendation during this period. Virginia Military Institute affairs are often mentioned, among them the selection of a new Superintendent, a position for which Marshall was considered. In addition to the general correspondence, the ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD subgroup includes alphabetically arranged acknowledgments of the letters of congratulations which Marshall received upon his promotion to brigadier general in 1936. The VANCOUVER BARRACKS papers include a separate, chronologically arranged subseries of correspondence concerning invitations. Throughout these first five subgroups there is correspondence with important commanders ofthe United States Armed Forces: Brigadier General H. H. Arnold, Major General Fox Conner, General Malin Craig, Major General Frank McCoy, and General John J. Pershing are a few of the most outstanding. A name index to each of these five subgroups is available at the Marshall Library. VI. PENTAGON OFFICE The PENTAGON OFFICE subgroup (1938-1951) has the personal papers of Army Chief of Staff Marshall as its core. It would be convenient to maintain the symmetry of the subgroup titles by calling this subgroup "Chief of Staff." There are, xvi
however, papers here from before and after the time that Marshall served as Chief of Staff. An office was maintained in the Pentagon for Marshall after he retired as Army Chief of Staff. Apparently some of the correspondence received at Marshall's other offices-those of the State Department, the Defense Department, etc.-was sent to his Pentagon Office to be answered there and interfiled with his earlier papers. The PENTAGON OFFICE files span the years 1938-1951 and overlap in time with the CHINA MISSION, SECRETARY OF STATE, AMERICAN RED CROSS, and SECRETARY OF DEFENSE subgroups; they overlap part of the AMERI CAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION subgroup, as well. The PENTAGON OFFICE subgroup consists of eight series: 1. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS 2. CORRESPONDENCE 3. SHORTHAND NOTEBOOKS 4. SPEECHES, STATEMENTS, AND WRITINGS 5. TESTIMONIES BEFORE CONGRESS 6. ENGAGEMENT AND VISITORS RECORDS 7. FINANCIAL AND LEGAL RECORDS 8. SCRAPBOOKS AND SCRAPBOOK MATERIALS These files were begun when Marshall arrived in Washington in 1938 to head the War Plans Division. Also found here, however, is a very small amount of correspondence dating from the 1920s, most notably with Generals Pershing and Drum. Speeches from as early as 1908 are also present. As it seems that General Marshall brought these papers with him to Washington, D.C., and had them filed here, they have been kept in this subgroup where they were found. 1. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS The series of BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS consists of three folders of miscellaneous biographical data concerning General Marshall and his wife, Katherine Tupper Marshall. The materials are arranged chronologically. 2. CORRESPONDENCE The CORRESPONDENCE series is made up of three large subseries: I ---a-.· General b. Selected c. Categorical xvii
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