Guide to the Kenneth H. Powers Military History Collection 2006.0287 James Corsaro Archivist July 2009 Table of Contents Box 1: Kenneth Powers, Biographical material Box 2: Military Manuals Box 3: Flags and Colors Box 4: Books Box 5: Military Magazines Box 6-11: CMH, Military Uniforms in America Box 12-17: Newspapers Box 18-21: National Guard Box 22-29: Seventh Regiment Box 30: 8th Regiment Box 31-35: 9th Regiment Box 36: 9th Coast Artillery Corps, 10th, 12th, 13th Regiments Box 37: 14th and 15th Regiments Box 38: 22nd Regiment Box 39: 23rd Regiment Box 40: 47th and 65th Regiment Box 41-42: 71st Regiment Box 43-45A: Squadron A Box 46: Squadron C Box 47-48: 26th (Yankee) Division Box 49-50: 27th Division Box 51: 42nd (Rainbow) Division Box 52-52A: Miscellaneous Military Units Box 53: 317th Infantry; Canadian military units Box 54: Miscellaneous regiments Box 55-56: Scrapbooks Box 57-59: 105th Infantry Box 60-81: 69th Regiment (165th Infantry; also, Irish Brigade) Box 82-95 and Oversize Print Drawers: Photographs Box 96: Certificates and Maps Box 97-99: Prints and Posters, oversize Box 100-101: Negative photographs and slides Box 102-104: Objects, Medals Box 105-108: K. Powers Research Files Box 109: World War I Scrapbook Guide to the Kenneth Powers Military History Collection Scope of Collection: Kenneth Powers, Historian of the 69th Regiment, created this collection of material about the 69th Regiment and several military units, including the 165th , 105th, 7th, 9th, 14th, Squadron A and other regiments, the National Guard, 27th and 42nd Divisions as well as other units The bulk of the material is concerned with the Civil War, World War I and World War II, although there is material about the origins of some of the units prior to the Civil War and material about these units in the Spanish-American War and Mexican Border Service as well. Most of the units in the collection were related to the 69th Regiment in some way, chiefly by serving in larger military units. Powers retired as a Lt. Col. Inf., New York Guard. He was also very interested in Irish and Irish-American history as well as Powers family history and collected material related to these topics. He also was interested in the history of military uniforms, as well as medals and insignia and there is a substantial amount of material related to this interest. The collection includes original manuscripts and documents, photographs, maps, military uniform prints, scrapbooks, newspapers, broadsides, many photocopied newspaper and magazine articles and other formats of material. It is possibly the largest collection of material related to the history of the historic 69th Regiment in existence. The New York State Military Museum Research Center has numerous regimental histories related to the 69th Regiment and the other regiments, brigades and divisions with historical materials in this collection. Some histories of the 69th Regiment include: Bilby, Joseph G., Remember Fontenoy!: The 69th New York and the Irish Brigade in the Civil War, 1995 Demeter, Richard, The Fighting 69th: A History, 2002 Harris, Stephen L., Duffy’s War, Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I, 2008 Kenneth Powers wrote brief historical summaries of the 69th Regiment and copies of those histories are found in the collection. Box 1: Kenneth Powers, Biographical and Family Material: Folder 1: Photocopies of pages with information about the Powers family name and coat of arms; also a Irish postcard illustrated with the Powers family coat of arms; also broadside and correspondence about the Power Clan rallies in Waterford, IR, 1994-96. Also, copy of an article about David Power Conyngham, Irishman who fought with the 69th Regt. Folder 2: Photocopies of appointment of K. Powers as Lt. Col., Inf., New York Guard, July 24, 1973 and of his 25-year certificate for service in the military forces of NYS, August 1973 with correspondence. Folder 3: New York National Guard Officer Candidate School, Catalogue, 1952 and Officer Candidate School, Branch No. 2, New York National Guard, the yearbook of the school for 1952 with group picture of Platoon C, including Powers. Folder 4: File of correspondence, lists of names, maps and other material of K. Powers contacts in his historical work. Box 2 Series: Military Manuals: This is a small series of field manuals of the U. S. War Department for use by the troops and officers, a few with the names of the original owners of the manuals (owners’ name in parentheses. There are also two Army song books and a service record book. Manual of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber 45, Model of 1911, War Plans Division, May 1918 Basic Field Manual, U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1917, Oct. 1943 (Sgt. Yager) Basic Field Manual, U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1903, 1940 (Frank DelMonico, Co. E, 105th Inf.) Staff Officers’ Field Manual, Staff and Combat Orders, 1940 Field Service Regulations, Operations, Administration, and Staff and Combat Orders, 1941 (Leon G. Dibble, Jr.) Basic Field Manual, Physical Training, 1941 Infantry Field Manual, Rifle Company, Rifle Regiment, 1942 (Co. F, 2nd Regt., NYG, Schenectady) U.S.A., Service Record Book, Army and Navy Accessory Store, 1942 Army Song Book, Adjutant General’s Office, 1941, 2 copies (1 missing cover, J. F. Hyland) Manual of Guard Duty, U.S. Army, rev. ed., 1908 (Co. F, 23 Inf.) Catholic Prayer Book for the Army and Navy, John J. Burke, C.S.P., NY, 1917 (165th Inf., NYNG) Box 3: Series: Flags and Colors of the United States Military This series consists of photocopied research files by K. Powers about flags of the United States and its’ military forces, including regulations on the use and care of flags from the U.S. War Department and Quartermaster General, articles about colors, flags, colors and standards of particular military units, especially the Continental Army during the American Revolution, Civil War and ante-bellum period; also, unpublished article, The Conservation of Civil War Flags: The Military Historian’s Perspective, by Howard M. Madaus, Milwaukee Public Museum, 1987 and a statement of the Division of Military and Naval Affairs, on the Civil War Flags on loan from the State Military Museum with a list of regiments whose flags are on loan, n.d., ca. 1961; also photocopies of articles about flag conservation in Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois and Pennsylvania; also material re: to swatch of 69th regimental colors in Ireland. Box 4: Series: Books, etc. This is a series of books, pamphlets and magazine issues related to general military history. Owners’ names, where found, are in parentheses. Harper’s Pictorial Library of the World War, 12 vols., Volume 5 only, The United States in the War, 1920. Souvenir Program, Welcome Home Celebration, Cohoes, 1919 (George F. Marra) How to Respect and Display Our Flag, U.S. Marine Corps, 1942, (Jerry Cataldo) Battlefields around Fredericksburg, Self Guiding Tour, 1968 “Rebel Joe,” The True Story of a True Fighting Man, by George J. Manley, 1935, missing cover. The Nation’s National Guard, National Guard Association of the U.S., 1954. This book has 7 photographs loose and pasted in the cover. The snapshots are of mostly unidentified men at Ft. McClellan, AL and Camp Livingston, PA, 1942-43. A History of the Civil War, by Benson J. Lossing, with reproductions of the Brady war photographs, New York , War Memorial Association, 16 Sections, 1895 (1905), Sections 3,7,10,14 and 15 only. Life Magazine, The American Revolution, reprint from July 3, 1950 issue, 2 copies. Abraham Lincoln in Kansas Territory, December 1 to 7, 1859, by Alan W. Farley, 1959. Growth of the Catholic Church in the United States, by Rev. Patrick W. O’Flaherty, n.d., ca. 1943. New York Irish History, vol. 10, 1996, includes an article about Mary Farrington, whose brother, Patrick was in the 2nd Regt., NYV. Salvaging Revolutionary Relics from the York River, reprint of article, 1939, by Homer L. Ferguson. NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Rules, n.d., 2000? New York State and the Civil War, pamphlet series on the state and the Civil War with several articles for each pamphlet, July 1961, Dec. 1962, Feb. 1963, March 1963 (2 cop.) (Rev. Patrick O’Flaherty) Second New York Infantry at the Mexican Border, Troy, NY,, 1917? Final Report on the Battle of Gettysburg, chapter on the Irish Brigade monument from an address by Gen. Robert Nugent; with an additional photocopy of the report. In Union’s Defeat at Fredericksburg the Irish Brigade held Strong, pamphlet history of the Brigade at Fredericksburg, 3 copies. History of the Civil War, B.J. Lossing, Section 12 only, pp. 353-384. Regimental Historical Sketches, by Gen. DeWitt Clinton Falls, published in The National Guardsman. This is a series of brief historical articles about New York State National Guard regiments with an illustration, by DWC Falls, of the uniforms of the regiment. The articles have been removed from the National Guardsman magazine and pasted on loose scrapbook pages. The following regiments are included in this series here: 174th Inf., 105th Inf., 108th Inf., 369th Inf., Old Guard (Tomkins Blues to Co. A of 71st Regt.), 105th Field Artillery, 156th Field Artillery, 165th Inf., 104th Field Art., 27th Div., Special Troops, 121st Cavalry,244th Art., 10th Inf., Veteran Corps of Art., 71st Inf., 101st Signal Battalion, 102nd Engineers, 212th Art., 14th Inf., 107th Inf., 27th Division Train, Q.M.C. (old 47th Regt.), 101st Cav., and 13th Regt. Box 5: Series: Military Magazines This is a series of magazines concerned with military topics and issues, but not published or concerned with particular military units.