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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79003963
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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Elijah Reynolds were given to the Library of Congress by Vivian Johnson in 1959. Additional items were given by Thelma Raney in 2020.
The papers of Elijah Reynolds were arranged and described by Manuscript Division staff in 1978. An addition was processed and a finding aid was created in 2021 by Nate Scheible.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Elijah Reynolds is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Elijah Reynolds are open to research. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Elijah Reynolds Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Elijah Reynolds was born on July 22, 1875 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1894, and was assigned to the racially segregated Twenty-fifth Infantry Regiment wherein he served until his retirement in 1919 as a captain. He married Maggie D. McInham (died 1950) in 1906. After retiring from the Army in 1919, he worked as a clerk at the War Department and as a military instructor at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. He died on November 3, 1959 in Washington, D.C.
The papers of Elijah Reynolds span the years 1897-1959, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940 to 1959. The collection primarily documents Reynolds’s military career between 1894 and 1919, most of which was spent in the racially segregated Twenty-fifth Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, which consisted solely of African American troops. It also documents his position as an officer in the 368th Infantry Regiment. It includes certificates, medals, photographs, correspondence, and other textual documents. The centerpiece of the collection is the memoir “A Negro Soldier,” written by Reynolds. In the memoir, Reynolds recounts his daily experiences as a soldier and describes significant events such as fighting in Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898, guerilla warfare in the Philippines during the Philippine American War from 1899 to 1902, “uprisings” in Indian Territory, and tours of duty in Europe during World War I. The collection contains little documentation of Reynolds’s civilian and personal life.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or material type.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79003963