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Andrew Jackson Faulk letters and speeches

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3070
Abstract Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1862-1870, of A.J. Faulk, written chiefly during his 1867-1869 governorship of the Dakota Territory concerning U.S. government's intention to stop a proposed expedition to explore and settle unceded Black Hills Indian lands, the Indian Peace Commission, the mustering of volunteer cavalry, appropriations for the relief of destitute upper Missouri tribes, etc. Also, Dec. 1867 annual address to the territorial legislature discussing, among many issues, the...
Dates: 1862-1870

Benjamin Henry Grierson papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3039
Abstract Volunteer military officer during the Civil War, organizer of the U.S. Army Tenth Cavalry in 1866, commander of various Western army posts and active in opening the Western frontier until retirement in 1890. Grierson’s papers consist of correspondence (including over a hundred letters to his wife, Alice Kirk Grierson), documents such as orders, reports and maps and other military material, as well as personal miscellany relating to his service in the Western Territories. Microfilm copy...
Dates: 1865-1890

Francema Mason - Otis Mason correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mason
Abstract

Nineteen letters from Otis Mason, a sergeant in the Civil War to his Illinois wife, Francema Otis. Twelve letters from various friends and family, and a wedding invitation are also included.

Dates: 1863-1876; Majority of material found within 1863-1868

L. S. Willard letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Willard
Abstract

First Lieutenant in the 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, who later served as major and aide-de-camp to General James Birdseye McPherson. Includes letters home to family from Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, from Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana, 1862-1864.

Dates: 1862-1864

Richard Irving Dodge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio Graff-1110
Abstract

Twenty pocket journals (all but six with transcriptions), 1875-1883, kept during Richard Irving Dodge’s active service as a United States Army colonel in the American West, plus correspondence, military documents, broadsides, miscellany and photographs relating to Dodge’s life and career.

Dates: 1863-1905

William Holmes Onderdonk autograph letter collection

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-Y228.05
Abstract

The collection consists of 18 manuscript letters, mounted, and arranged chronologically. Each letter is preceded by a page bearing the name of the writer and subject of the letter. A portrait of each author represented is included.

Dates: 1839-1885

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United States. Army 3
Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 2
A.D. Worthington & Co. 1
Alvord, Henry E. (Henry Elijah), 1844-1904 1
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 1
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Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Brown, Olympia, 1835-1926 1
Brunot, Felix R. (Felix Reville), 1820-1898 1
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 1
Burleigh, Walter A. (Walter Atwood), 1820-1896 1
Clem, John Lincoln, 1851-1937 1
Conger, Patrick Henry, 1819-1903 1
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 1
Crook, George, 1829-1890 1
Dakota Territory. Governor (1866-1869 : Faulk) 1
Dawes, Henry L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903 1
Dodge family 1
Dodge, Julia Rhinelander Paulding 1
Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895 1
Edmunds, Newton 1
Faulk, Andrew Jackson, 1814-1898 1
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888 1
Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 1826-1911 1
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867 1
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 1
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 1
Hathaway, Maria Sabin, 1807-1896 1
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 1
Hazen, William Babcock, 1830-1887 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 1
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
Jayne, William, 1826-1916 1
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 1
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 1
Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell, 1840-1889 1
Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894 1
Mason family 1
Mason, Francema A., 1837-1911 1
Mason, Otis S., 1833-1919 1
McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Onderdonk, William Holmes 1
Paulding, Frederick, 1859-1937 1
Pope, John, 1822-1892 1
Schonenberger, John 1
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 1
Smither, Robert G. 1
Spink, S. L. (Solomon Lewis), 1831-1881 1
Taylor, N. G. (Nathaniel Green), 1819-1887 1
Terry, Alfred Howe, 1827-1890 1
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1
United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th 1
United States. Army. Department of Dakota 1
United States. Army. Department of the Tennessee 1
United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865?) 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 129th (1862-1865) 1
United States. Board of Indian Commissioners 1
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Dakota Superintendency 1
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
Willard family 1
Willard, L. S. (Lot Sabine) 1
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867 1
Woodward, Samuel L. 1
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