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Open book Letter and history Santa Fe, N.M.?, to Brig Gen. W.A. Hammond, Washington, D.C., 1863?

Title Letter and history Santa Fe, N.M.?, to Brig Gen. W.A. Hammond, Washington, D.C., 1863?

Creator McNulty, James Madison

Date 1863

Place New Mexico--Santa Fe, New Southwest

Language English

Subjects Apache Indians, Soldiers, United States

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Pages tied at upper margin with ribbon.
In box with title: March of the California Column. McNulty.
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Summary Letter from James M. McNulty to Brig. Gen. W.A. Hammond, then U.S. surgeon general, complying with Hammond's July 27, 1863, request that McNulty send his history on the genesis of the California Column and its 1,000 mile march from California, across Arizona and New Mexico, to the Rio Grande, Apr. 13-Aug. 8, 1862. Included in the narrative are lengthy excerpts from the journals of Lt. Col. Joseph R. West (California desert between Camp Wright and Fort Yuma; Fort Yuma to Tucson); Lieut. John B. Shinn (alternate route, Pima villages to Tucson); and Col. Edward E. Eyre (Tucson to the Rio Grande). All contain information on roads, terrain, forage, and water supply; in addition Eyre describes encounters with the Apaches and the advance troops' arrival at the Rio Grande, July 4, 1862. Also recorded in full are Col. (later Brig. Gen.) James H. Carleton's June 29, 1862, proclamation creating the Arizona Territory; July 20, 1862, general order re the march from Tucson to the Rio Grande; and Aug. 14, 1862, general order issued on his assumption of command of the Department of New Mexico. Attached to the final page is a printed Sept. 21, 1862, general order also issued by Carleton, commending the conduct of the men of the California Column.

Biographical/Historical Note Army surgeon. Originally from New York, McNulty enlisted from California in Aug., 1861, as a surgeon in the 1st California Infantry and participated in the California Column's expedition to New Mexico. On Feb. 14, 1863, he became surgeon to the U.S. Volunteers and medical director of the Department of New Mexico.

Extent 1 item (41 p.) ; 32 cm

Format Correspondence, Histories, Manuscripts, Orders (Military records), Records, Transcripts, Travel literature

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 556

BibID 143125

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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