1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [photograph of sand dunes]

Labeled "Sand dunes some thirty or fifty meters in height and reaching as far as the eye can reach..."

GLC02750.340

30 September 1862

Carr, Thomas B., fl. 1862

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.396

October 1862

Carr, Thomas B., fl. 1862

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.397

30 November 1862

Carr, Thomas B., fl. 1862

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.398

December 31, 1862

Carr, Thomas B., fl. 1862

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.399

December 31, 1862

Carr, Thomas B., fl. 1862

Printed document

Title: [Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.400

December 31, 1862

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1825-1901

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain James Remington, Company "H," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

Jenks signs as Lieutenant

GLC02750.401

January 31, 1863

Hunt, Edwin L., fl. 1863

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Hunt, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.402

January 31, 1863

Hunt, Edwin L., fl. 1863

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Hunt, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.403

January 31, 1863

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1825-1901

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain James Remington, Company "H," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

Jenks signs as Lieutenant

GLC02750.404

28 February 1863

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1825-1901

Printed document signed

Title: [Return of Captain James Remington, Company "H," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]]

Jenks signs as Lieutenant

GLC02750.405

December 31, 1890

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling wife and baby"

re: Hartsuff reports that the war commenced almost without warning. Four companies of Infantry had already struck their tents and gotten ready to leave and another four were under orders to strike their tents when the fight broke upon them. Hartsuff reports that his hospital is full of the dead and dying, that upwards of one hundred Indian women and children have sought refuge at the Agency and that the hostiles are now less than twelve miles away. Written at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency

GLC05201.020

January 16, 1891

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling little buttercup"

re: Hartsuff opens with the speculation that his address may be "Pine Ridge, &c. &c." forever and goes on to complain about the speed with which the Indians continue to deliberate and negotiate the settlement. He also asserts that peace is the only alternative, for resistance, while they are all on the reservation and under the gun, would mean "annihilation." Written at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency

GLC05201.022

19 June 1891

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling Florence"

re: Hartsuff's advice to his daughter on the subject of her course of study in the next year. He implores her to take a mathematics course, and strongly advises her to take German, literature and physics so she can enter college in the sophomore class. Written at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency

GLC05201.023

January 21, 1891

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling Florence"

re: Hartsuff asks Florence when her first and second term classes begin and tells her that he will forward her tuition as soon as possible. He claims that he still has no news about when he might be coming home Written at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency

GLC05201.024

January 29, 1891

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling Florence"

re: wrote too fast, hope she understands, concentrate on lessons, advice on math classes, describes large gathering of Indians, wishes she could see. Written at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency

GLC05201.025

18 September 1891

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling Florence"

re: misses her. Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.026

22 November 1891

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling Florence"

re: can't go to church because of a blizzard, so is writing her, local news, importance of education, her holiday plans. Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.027

14 March 1892

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling"

re: delighted, have told everybody (unknown reason) Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.028

8 April 1893

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "my darling wife and children"

re: hopes enjoying Italy and Geneva Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.029

June 17, 1876

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown]

re: "The great Indian army under the Command of General George Crook leaves this post today."

GLC05201.030

1861-1877

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

re: "A quiet, lonesome, pleasant Sunday afternoon, the grass is commencing to look green . . . ."

GLC05201.031

Circa 1893

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

re: "It just occurs to me that if you enclose this letter in one of your own nice letters to Sister, it will save me some work," [1893/4/8, and the next three undated letters may have been part of a packet of letters sent from Arthur Hartsuff to his wife at one time, do not separate]

GLC05201.032

13 March 1893

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

Envelope

Title: to Florence Hartsuff

re: Florence Hartsuff, 147 Montagne St. Brooklyn, N. Y. , envelope with two cent postage stamp and cancellations for Fort Omaha (March 13), Omaha, NEB (March 13), and Brooklyn, N. Y. (March 15).] Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.033

circa. early summer 1942

Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Estelle Spero

Describes the experience of being subjected to a dose of chloracetophenone (tear gas) in order to demonstrate to the soldiers the value of the gas mask. Outlines the rest of the day's schedule - a class in military customs and the History of chemical warfare, a class on the identification of airplanes, a session during which the company were forced to lay out field wire and telephones and sessions with both the rifle and revolver. Explains the etymological root of the expression, a "gig", meaning a special detail assigned after hours as a mode of punishment

GLC09120.046