Vernell R. Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0736

Collection Organization

The Vernell R. Miller Correspondence consists of 101 family letters and 6 miscellaneous items, covering the period from 1945 through 1946. Primarily the correspondence between Vernell and his parents while serving with the 13th Engineers, the letters tend to deal with mundane daily activities of camp life, and family matters.

The early correspondence deals primarily with adjustment to army life, issues of trying to get a discharge on the basis of agricultural hardship for his family, and descriptions of activities and people in his unit. A sequence of several letters written while en route between Ft. Riley, Kansas and Fort Ord, California, give his reactions to seeing the varying landscape of mountains and observations of agricultural and ranching activity along the way.

A gap of several months occurs in the correspondence after he arrives in Ft. Ord and resumes when he is posted overseas to Seoul, Korea where his duties seem to involve driving trucks, working with parts supply for heavy equipment, and finally with the Division Fire Department. There are almost no internal references to impressions of Korea except for derogatory mention of gooks and to sending some kimonos home. For the most part the description of activities parallels that of his impressions of army base operations in the States.

Vernell to parents from Camp Atterbury, March 30-April 1, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 1-2
Dates
Creation: March 30-April 1, 1945

Vernell to Elwood, April 2, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 3
Dates
Creation: April 2, 1945

Vernell to parents and Elwood, April 3, 1945?

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 11, Item: 4
Dates
Creation: April 3, 1945?

Vernell to parents from Camp Atterbury, April 5, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 5
Dates
Creation: April 5, 1945

Vernell to Elwood from Camp Atterbury, April 5, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 6
Dates
Creation: April 5, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, April 7-9, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 11, Item: 7-9
Dates
Creation: April 7-9, 1945

Vernell to Elwood from Fort McClellan, April 11, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 10
Dates
Creation: April 11, 1945

Vernell to parents and Elwood from Fort McClellan, April 12, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 11
Dates
Creation: April 12, 1945

Vernell to Elwood from Fort McClellan, April 13, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 12
Dates
Creation: April 13, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, April 13-15, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 13-14
Dates
Creation: April 13-15, 1945

Vernell to mom from Ft. McClellan (written on verso of chapel bulletin), April 15, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 15
Dates
Creation: April 15, 1945

Vernell to Elwood from Fort McClellan, April 15, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 16
Dates
Creation: April 15, 1945

Vernell to mom from Fort McClellan, April 17, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 17
Dates
Creation: April 17, 1945

Vernell to parents and Elwood from Fort McClellan, April 17, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 18
Dates
Creation: April 17, 1945

To Vernell from Private Donald Miller, April 18, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 19
Dates
Creation: April 18, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, April 19, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 20-21
Dates
Creation: April 19, 1945

Vernell to parents and Elwood, April 22, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 22
Dates
Creation: April 22, 1945

Vernell to mom from Fort McClellan, April 23-25, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 23-24
Dates
Creation: April 23-25, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, April 26-29, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 1, Item: 25-26
Dates
Creation: April 26-29, 1945

Vernell to parents and Elwood from Fort McClellan, May 2-3, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 2, Item: 1-2
Dates
Creation: May 2-3, 1945

Vernell to Elwood from Fort McClellan, May 4, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 2, Item: 3
Dates
Creation: May 4, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, May 6-24, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 2, Item: 4-10
Dates
Creation: May 6-24, 1945

Vernell to mom from Fort McClellan, May 26, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 2, Item: 11
Dates
Creation: May 26, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, May 27-29, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 2, Item: 12-15
Dates
Creation: May 27-29, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, June 1-11, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 3, Item: 1-6
Dates
Creation: June 1-11, 1945

Vernell to Elwood from Fort McClellan, June 14, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 3, Item: 7
Dates
Creation: June 14, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, June 22-28, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 3, Item: 8-10
Dates
Creation: June 22-28, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, July 1-10, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 4, Item: 1-5
Dates
Creation: July 1-10, 1945

Vernell to mom from Fort McClellan, July 11, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 4, Item: 6
Dates
Creation: July 11, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, July 15, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 4, Item: 7
Dates
Creation: July 15, 1945

Vernell to mom from Fort McClellan, July 18, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 4, Item: 8
Dates
Creation: July 18, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort McClellan, July 22-29, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 4, Item: 9-14
Dates
Creation: July 22-29, 1945

Vernell to mom from Fort Riley, September 2, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 1
Dates
Creation: September 2, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort Riley, September 2, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 2
Dates
Creation: September 2, 1945

Vernell to parents while on train to Fort Ord, September 5-6, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 3-5
Dates
Creation: September 5-6, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort Ord, September 8-13,1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 6-10
Dates
Creation: September 8-13,1945

Vernell to mom from Fort Ord, September 14, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 11
Dates
Creation: September 14, 1945

Vernell to parents from Fort Ord, September 15-16, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 12-13
Dates
Creation: September 15-16, 1945

Vernell to parents from Seoul, South Korea, March 20-June 26, 1946

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 6, Item: 1-12
Dates
Creation: March 20-June 26, 1946

Vernell to parents from Seoul, South Korea, July 9-October 23-1946

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 7, Item: 1-11
Dates
Creation: July 9-October 23-1946

Correspondence from the Selective Service Board of Sandusky County, March 21, 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 8, Item: 1
Dates
Creation: March 21, 1945

Dear Vernell [from Mother], April 1945

 Item – Box 1, Folder: 8, Item: 2-3
Dates
Creation: April 1945

Forms for disposition of civilian clothing and mustering out pay, 1945-1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: 1945-1946

Answers to Questions - Induction Center, 1944

 File – Box 1, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: 1944