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1844/01/22
Ogden, F.W., fl. 1844
Report to Texas House of Representatives re: condition of archives w/ "A Card"
Clerical manuscript damaged with loss of text in margin. Authentic copy. (Docket misdates).
GLC02145.05.01
3 February 1844
"A Card"
Two copies of the Ward broadside, "A Card," responding to Ogdin & Grammont report on archives, 1844/02/03, 33 x 20 cm.
GLC02145.05.02
circa 1838
West Point Military Academy
Composition of Armies
Contains sections concerning strategy, marches, battle, position, convoys, castrametation, military reconnaissance, and "Indian warfare." Lithography by George Aspinwall at the U.S. Military Academy Press. Owned by Henry W. Halleck while a cadet at...
GLC05707.06
05 July 1828
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
to William Wirt
Asking for comments on Georgia's claims pursuant to an 1802 federal agreement that extinguished Indian titles within the state's boundaries. The letter anticipates the events leading up to the 1829 Georgia-Cherokee Crisis; the Supreme Court case...
GLC08279.01
13 August 1859
Moore, John, 1826-1907
to Mary Kelly
Reports that he left Camp Floyd, Utah, to punish Indians who were murdering emigrants on the North California road; Moore's party attacked an Indian encampment at dawn, killing twenty and driving off the rest.
GLC04194.22
10 November 1859
Scott, H.L. (Henry Lee), 1814-1886
General orders No. 5
A printed copy issued by Headquarters, New York, commending Assistant Surgeon John Moore for his immediate and kind attention to the wounded after an engagement with Indians on 14 August 1853. Includes description of the skirmish near Box Elder...
GLC04194.23
July 05, 1828
[Collection of 3 items regarding Indian Affairs] [Decimalized .01- .02]
GLC08279
10 May 1859
Informs Kelly that Jacob Forney, the Indian agent, brought the sixteen children who survived the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 into Salt Lake City a few days before. Explains that the children have confirmed the widely held belief that the...
GLC04194.16
6 June 1859
to James Kelly
Gives graphic details of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857. Is disgusted that the Mormons "claim remuneration" for maintaining and paying ransom to the Indians for the surviving children. Reports that the Indians claim Bishop John D. Lee raped...
GLC04194.17
15 June 1859
Discusses his deep hatred of the Mormons in inflammatory language. Mentions that the sixteen children who survived the Mountain Meadows Massacre are to be sent to their relatives in a few days. He is stunned to read in the Deseret News that the...
GLC04194.18
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