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June 2018 four-volume index completes the Broadfoot set. Next month, this column will provide the table of contents for the MOLLUS Papers from Nebraska, Minnesota, and Rhode Island. Digitized-versions exist online at the organization’s website: http://suvcw.org/mollus/ warpapers/warpapers.htm (also check http://suvcw.org/mollus/ molid.htm) and at the Internet Archives, http://bit.ly/2EVfpPC. Those researchers wishing to purchase the MOLLUS set may do so at Broadfoot Publishing, http://www.broadfootpublishing. com. Remember to check WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/ for help in finding the Papers in a local library; search ISBN 1568370016. Enjoy this source and continued good luck in researching the Civil War! Readers wishing to view all the articles in this series thus far can visit https://issuu.com/mshaffe3.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS)
War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Readers may contact him at mkscdr11@gmail.com, or to request speaking engagements via his website www.civilwarhistorian.net. Follow Michael on Facebook www.facebook.com/ michael.k.shaffer and Twitter @ michaelkshaffer.
Please see the tables on the following pages. Lieut. Gen. John McAllister Schofield Commander-inChief 1899–1903.
MOLLUS Papers book cover. Judging from the kind response from you, our readers, this series on the MOLLUS Papers, seemingly, has generated much interest. This writer sincerely appreciates the various emails and a particular note from the folks with the current MOLLUS organization. We continue this month in providing the index content for the Papers from Maine, New York, and Indiana Commanderies, or volumes 16-24. As a general refresher, the first two volumes of the Broadfoot 1990s reprint set, unnumbered, consist of ‘Biographical Sketches of Contributors,’ and ‘Companions.’ The second volume offers hundreds of photographs of the various members. The collected papers from the commanderies appear in the following order. Ohio, volumes 1-9; Illinois, 1013D; Missouri, vol. 14; Kansas, 15; Maine, volumes 16-19; New York, 20-23; Indiana, 24; Nebraska, 25; Minnesota, 26-31; Rhode Island, 32-41; District of Columbia, 42-45; Wisconsin, 46-49; Michigan, 50-51; Massachusetts, 52-54; Iowa, 55-56; Vermont, 57; Pennsylvania, 58-59; California and Oregon, volume 60; and a
Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace.
Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, author, lecturer, and instructor, who remains a member of the Society of Civil
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