Notice Nearby
From the National Archives
Stories from the record that almost nobody has heard. Each one is a short Notice Nearby story taken from a public-domain file at the National Archives — a document, a photograph, a letter, a patent, a court file, or a military record — and each one names the catalog identifier.
3 stories, newest first. Page 1 of 1. 12 a page.
April 5, 1898 · NAID 300369
Annie Oakley offered fifty sharpshooters, arms included
The National Archives dates a letter of April 5, 1898, from Annie Oakley to President William McKinley. The catalog says she offered a company of fifty lady sharpshooters who would bring their own arms and ammunition, if war broke out with Spain.
December 2, 1864 · NAID 3854724
Annie Samuels asked for a regiment of women
In the War Department Collection of Confederate Records, a letter with a catalog production date of December 2, 1864, is titled as Annie Samuels asking the Confederate Secretary of War, J. A. Sedden, to form a regiment of women.
May 17, 1825 · NAID 300334
Chilly McIntosh asked the War Department for protection
The catalog covers a letter of May 17, 1825, from Chilly McIntosh to James Barbour, Secretary of War. It says he asked for protection against the Creek party that had killed his father, William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creeks.
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