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    <abstract id="aspace_f5c7f1007538250f43d26735f6a81479">Selected documents from the service record of Col. James Monroe Ingalls, U.S. Army, who was professor of military science and tactics and professor of mathematics at West Virginia University, 1877-1878. The collection includes correspondence and memoranda, 1878-1884, concerning the retention of Ingalls at WVU or the assignment of another qualified officer, comments on the inadequacy of the law governing the apportionment of officers to land-grant colleges, and a catalog of the professional works and papers of Ingalls. Correspondents include William W. Belknap, James R. Thompson, George W. McCrary, Rutherford B. Hayes, Waitman T. Willey, and George C. Sturgiss.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James Monroe Ingalls (1837-1927) Service Records, A&amp;M 1903, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <persname source="ingest">Sturgiss, George C.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86848080" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Ingalls, James M. (James Monroe), 1837-1927</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82094595" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">McCrary, George W. (George Washington), 1835-1890</persname>
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