Newberry Library - To Alice Kirk Grierson, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Dec. 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 1868

To Alice Kirk Grierson, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Dec. 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 1868

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Open book Alice Kirk Grierson, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Dec. 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 1868

Title To Alice Kirk Grierson, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Dec. 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 1868

Creator Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 1826-1911

Date Dec. 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 1868

Place Oklahoma--Fort Sill, Texas, Texas--Fort Concho, Texas--Fort Davis

Language English

Subjects Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, United States

Description 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 available in the Newberry Library.

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User-Contributed Transcription (No 1)Settle Washita1.P.M. Dec 18 / 68 I wrote you from Fort Arbuckle Enclosing Paymaster's Dft - (Maj [?Cander?] ) on New York for ($200-) Two hundred dollars - which I hope you will receive in time for the holidays and with which I hope you will not hesitate to buy anything you may need or wish for yourself and the children. We are waiting for our wagon to come up. are yet about 35 miles from Fort Cobb, and hope to reach that point to-morrow Evening Everything was quiet at Cobb, at date of latest information - (the 16th) and nothing had been heard from Gen Sheridan, except through reports received from Indians, reports of a fight between a portion of Sheridan's troops and the Cheyennes & Arapahoes which account about the 27th of Nov has been received from Indians in which about 20 Indians and about the same number of troops were killed The troops are expected to have gone north, and the hostile Indians South, towards the West end of the Wichita Mountains - Under present orders no movement of troops can be made from this direction and we are compelled to look on while

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Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection, Benjamin Henry Grierson papers

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Call Number VAULT Ayer MS 3039 Box 1 Folder 5

BibID 991343308805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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