Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George A. and Elizabeth B. Custer papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 364
Scope and Contents
This collection includes miscellaneous correspondence of both Custers including military reports and orders, newspaper clippings, and two patents issued to G. A. Custer. Correspondents include Edwin. M. Stanton, Zachariah Chandler, Reuben E. Fenton, Andrew Johnson, Lawrence Barrett, William T. Sherman, Nelson A. Miles, B. O. Aylesworth, and A. B. Ostrander.
Dates:
1857-1929
Nelson Appleton Miles letters
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308170]
Identifier: MSS SC 1023
Scope and Contents
24 items: 20 handwritten letters; 1 typewritten letter; 1 printed program from an 1877 banquet in his honor; and a 1935 newspaper account detailing his campaign against the Indians in 1876. Two letters are undated. Most are addressed to Lieutenant (later Captain) Frank D. Baldwin. Letters contain requests for supplies and teamsters in preparation for his Indian campaigns; a report on an engagement with the Sioux under Sitting Bull in December 1876; and other personal and official...
Dates:
1875-1898