Jackson, Edwin, fl. 1862-1865 [Collection of Edwin Jackson, D company, 6th regiment, Minnesota, infantry] [decimalized]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00203 Author/Creator: Jackson, Edwin, fl. 1862-1865 Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1862-1865 Pagination: 18 letters : 1 carte de visite Height: 20 cm, Width: 25 cm Order a Copy
Fighting the Sioux [18 letters]. Edwin Jackson 6th Regt. Minn. Vols. collection of letters, many written on patriotic stationery. Very detailed and descriptive accounts of Indian atrocities against civilians and battles. On 12 October 1862, he writes "we found men women and children all along the road...the Indians killed them with a Club I have the club, when I got it there were Blood some of the brain and pieces of skul bones in the wood and still another case of a poor woman that was in the family way they killed her cut her head off placed it betw in her legs cut the child out of her." On 25 February 1863, he writes: "we will fight the Red Skins--Little Crow is making a big blow, says he is going to give us a big fight...This Indian outbreak has been a great backset for our noble state and emigration is all stopped." On 30 August 1863, he writes: "I am happy to say we are again in America--we have had four fights...killed about 150." In his last letter, he writes: "it was predicted by all Foreign Nations that a free Government like ours could not exist, but we have proven to the World that it truly can." With carte sized photograph of Fort Snelling and stray envelope.
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