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To Lawrie Tatum, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Sept. 30, 1869

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Open book Lawrie Tatum, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Sept. 30, 1869

Title To Lawrie Tatum, Benjamin Henry Grierson outgoing correspondence, Sept. 30, 1869

Creator Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 1826-1911

Date Sept. 30, 1869

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 Personal [underline]Fort Sill Ind. Ter.Sept. 30th 1869.Friend Tatum,My Dear Sir In accordance with your permission and that of Friend Stanleyy & Southwick, the Indians or the Kiowas, Apaches, and a portion of the Comanches, moved their Camps up the valley of the Washita, about the 1st of the present month for the purpose of hunting the buffalo. Last week Mow-wi and Ten Bear came in for rations and report considerable sickness out there; that some have died; among those reported dead, are Satanta and Fish-e-more (the latter the old Kiowas interpreter). Both Mow-wi and Ten Bear state, that they have not heard "any bad talk" among the Indians that they have not bee off the Reservation, and will all be back again to

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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 48

BibID 991343308805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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