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to H. H. Heath

Copies a request, sent by telegraph from Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Colonel and Chief Quartermaster. Parsons asks that the "Colypse," possibly a boat, is ordered forward after arriving at Fort Leavenworth to call upon Major Chew at "St. Joe" (possibly...

GLC02463.03

to Henry B. Curtis

Curtis, a future Union general, writes his older brother a long letter about his time at West Point, from which he graduated that year. Among the many plans and topics he comments on is the prejudice at the military academy of the "Yankee Staff...

GLC07358