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Christopher C. Augur papers, 1780-1911

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Title Christopher C. Augur papers, 1780-1911

Creator Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898

Date 1846-1885

Place Louisiana, Mississippi, Great Plains, Texas

Language English

Subjects United States, Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862, Indians of North America, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Red River War, 1874-1875, American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)

Summary Correspondence (1848-1896); printed and manuscript military orders and reports (1838-1882); some accounts and receipts; newspaper clippings; a small notebook/scrapbook kept in Oregon (1852-1854); three large official administrative letter-books of the Departments of Texas and the Gulf; two maps (Kansas 1866 and U.S. 1877); two speeches and Augur's thoughts on Indian wars; a few historical manuscript documents; a collection of memorabilia, some poems, and photograph proofs of Augur's son, Col. Jacob A. Augur. Correspondents include military figures Nathaniel P. Banks, Winfield Scott Hancock, John P. Hatch, Guy V. Henry, Ranald Mackenzie, Alexander McD. McCook, Innis N. Palmer, Henry AV Post, and Joseph H. Potter. There is also a letter written by Battle of Cedar Mountain Confederate captive Henry W. Prince. Augur's correspondence consists of drafts of his letters written between 1870 and 1885. Among subjects covered are railroad surveys of the West (1853), the Battle of Cedar Mountain (1862), Civil War spy Pardon Worsley, Sioux and Cheyenne campaigns, published reports on conditions in the West by P.H. Sheridan and William T. Sherman (1878 and 1882) plus a report of an official meeting with Sitting Bull in 1877, departmental administrative matters and endorsements, troop morale and deportment, court-martials, Texas-Mexico border depredations and unrest in Louisiana and Mississippi. Among miscellaneous manuscript documents is one relevant to the calling out of circulation Maryland bills of credit (1780), a copy of an 1863 treaty between the U.S. and mixed bands of Bannock and Shoshonee Indians, and a hand-written roster of the troops moved to join the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington, May-June, 1863.

Biographical/Historical Note United States Army officer, 1821-1898.

Extent 1.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

Format Correspondence, Records, Sources, Manuscripts, Autographs

User-Contributed Transcription 2and travled all over the Country looking for both the Secretary of War is Satisfied that I had men and horse but he Says I must Show that I was emploied by you and that I might onley be working for the Reward offered I posted up for government the first bills ever printed offering a Reward I allways come to you and aney time you Sed go and do aneything I don't my claime for this is but three hundred dollars I was note over three weeks and five men and horses I paid all Expences the days I got the gun boat baker got Booth So I did not go in it but I had the men in the Street all night awaiting orders and the news came that baker had got him if you remember I was hard at work at that time I comenced the next day after the President was kiled if you recolect you went down about 9 oclock in the morning and brought the Presadent up from tenth Street in a waggon you give me orders to take men and do all i could I did as you told me to but all the orders for horses has not your name to them but you gave orders and took them to the partis then thay give me orders to Quartermasters of corce your name is not an my last orders and the Secatary Says he will wite you he Says that you think I mad a good deal of money if it was my dying word I Say that I Lost Mosby owes me over a thousand dollars his men owe me Lots of tobaco I was in thare power I had to trust them when unley made the laide on Washington thay Stole Everything I had I then give up my teame and if you recolect when Genl Sheridan made for the valley you Sent for me to come to your office you told me if I would take the Team and go oute you would se thatI was paid I was Loosen then I took my wife and Comenced agan now I mad but ninteen trips and ICould not make a Large amount of money but I did actuley Looose money but if Mosby and his men had of paid me I should made maby two thousand dollars but I did not get the tobaco In and if Mosby had got me oute agan he would of hung me all he wanted was the Large lot of goods he ordered and to hand me but I did not go not go anney more the Jews put in affadavits that I decived them that thay thought I was a Settler did thay think our Soldiers wore gray uniforms and rebbell buttons Shoo Fly they Say I asked for bribes if I had of don that I ges you would of put me in old capitol thay I robed if I had don the Leas thing roung would not Mosley or his men hung me in a Second what a foolish Letter this of Riddles is but he has killed my Claime in the Sennate I have no friend to help me aboute a hundred Jews have him to the Committee I will now ask and pray that you will wright the facts and youse your influance for me to get a Settlement with the Secretary of War I am poor I hav a little farm in Ellington NY five hundred miles from Washington I hav bin hear Six times this winter and Spring I Shall go home tomorrow if cost me about a hundred dollars every time I come I had to Sell two cows to get the money to come hear this time and my farm my little home will be Sold in September to pay the mortgage if I do not get aney money hear I think that government had aught to Sustain me and to pay me that bribe money or its Equivilent and never let the Jews hav it It has cost me every cent if I got it for Expencis I paid all the Expences of the trails getting wittnesses of Millatory Commission and traveling Expencis my family expencis in Washington don all the work and paid oute thousands of dollars

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Call Number VAULT Ayer MS 3008

BibID 991342508805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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