Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Condensed record of Colonel H. C. Merriam, 7th U.S. Infantry., Undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 1500.001.23.1.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Handwritten letters by Colonel Henry C. Merriam, both personal and official correspondence, in a lined manuscript notebook, dating from Apr 1865 to Jun 1877. Topics addressed include: the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama and the colored troops therein; an Indian skirmish near the Arkansas River; military plan of mobile detachments to fight Indians in preference to establishment of a permanent sub-post; requests for aid of Mexican military in the capture of marauding cattle thieves;...
Dates:
Undated