Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

expedition to Tupelo, Mississippi; the pursuit of Sterling Price in Missouri; campaign in
Tennessee, including the Battle of Nashville; movement to New Orleans for the campaign
against Mobile; the siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely; movement to Montgomery; and the
return to Illinois, where mustered out. Papers contain descriptions of steamboat transportation,
marches, camp life, drunkenness, and casualties.
Cite as: Monroe Joshua Miller Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1049
Miller, Robert H. (1826-1911).
Papers, 1846-1937. 4 folders (approximately 100 items)
Robert Miller was founder and publisher of the Liberty (Missouri) Weekly Tribune, circa
1846. He was the publisher of the paper for 40 years.
Papers include letters from soldiers of the 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers to Robert H.
Miller, reporting on incidents of the Mexican War with the Army of the West, 1849-1887. Also
contains correspondence regarding gold mining in California, with descriptions of treks across
the plains from Liberty to California.
Cite as: Robert H. Miller Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1050
Miller, William H. (1840-1913).
Papers, 1860-1920. 3 boxes; 1 volume
William H.H. Miller was born May 11, 1840, in Erie, Pennsylvania, and later moved with his
family to South Bend, Indiana. During the Civil War he served as a private in Company I, 9th
Indiana Infantry, from April to July 1861. He reentered the service in October 1861 as a sergeant
in Company E, 48th Indiana Infantry, and rose to the rank of captain, before being mustered out
in July 1865. Following the war he served in the United States Army from 1867 to 1878, and
later worked at St. John’s School (Salina, Kansas), Southwestern Baptist University (Jackson,
Tennessee), and Kentucky Military Institute (Lyndon, Kentucky). He died November 1, 1913, in
St. Louis.
Collection consists mostly of military records, especially quartermaster records, which
include clothing, equipage, and garrison returns, invoices of ordnance and ordnance stores, for
Company E, 48th Indiana Infantry, 1863-1865; 27th U.S. Infantry at Fort Kearny, Fort C.T.
Smith, Montana Territory, Fort Sedgwick, Colorado Territory, and Camp Red Willow, Nebraska,
1866-1872. Also includes a commissary record book from Fort Reno, Dakota Territory, 1866-
1868, that was later used as a recipe book; a manuscript on the Battle of Iuka, Mississippi,
September 19, 1862; a letterbook of William H. Miller regarding sales and collections of army
insurance during Spanish-American War, 1899-1902; correspondence, 1865-1908; materials
related to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; and information on
Southwestern Baptist University.
Cite as: William H. Miller Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1051
Mines collection, 1798-1910. 3 folders (approximately 25 items)
The collection includes information about early mining in Missouri, including Mine a Breton
and Mine LaMotte; an article on the Leadville strike of 1896; a clipping about Iron Mountain;
and an account of the history and ownership status of the Mine La Motte (or Lamothe) lead mine
area in Missouri.
Cite as: Mines Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.