Samuel Ryan Curtis Papers 1846-1866

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Samuel Ryan Curtis Papers 1846-1866

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.curtis

The collection contains correspondence between Gen. S. R. Curtis and his family while in military service or on engineering jobs, his official correspondence with copies of orders, telegrams, and other military papers while serving in the Mexican and Civil Wars, as Indian Commissioner to make treaties with the Sioux in Montana and Dakota and while working on the Union Pacific Railroad. Family letters also record Samuel Stephen Curtis's experiences prospecting in California, 1858-60.

Total Boxes: 2; Linear Feet: 1

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349054

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866

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Born near Champlain, New York, Curtis graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1831. He was stationed at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territories (present-day Oklahoma) before resigning from the Army in 1832. He moved to Ohio, where he worked as a civil engineer on the Muskingum River improvement projects and also became a lawyer in 1841. During the Mexican–American War, he was appointed colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers and served as military governor of several occupied c...

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872

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Halleck was born on a farm in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, third child of 14 of Joseph Halleck, a lieutenant who served in the War of 1812, and Catherine Wager Halleck. Young Henry detested the thought of an agricultural life and ran away from home at an early age to be raised by an uncle, David Wager of Utica. He attended Hudson Academy and Union College, then the United States Military Academy. He became a favorite of military theorist Dennis Hart Mahan and was allowed to teach class...

Curtis, Belinda Buckingham.

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Curtis family.

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Curtis, Henry Zarah, d. 1863.

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United States. Army. Dept. of the Northwest.

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Curtis, Cornelia.

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Harlan, James, 1820-1899

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Served as a Whig Senator from Iowa and as United States Secretary of the Interior. Also served as president of Iowa Wesleyan University and later as president of Iowa State University. From the description of Letters, 1856-1892. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122517886 United States Secretary of Interior. From the description of Letter signed : Washington, to General Rice, 1865 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270510420 From t...

Curtis, Sadie.

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United States. Army. Colorado Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1863-1865)

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United States. Army. Dept. of the Missouri.

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United States. Army. Dept. of Kansas.

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Mills, James K.

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Sully, Alfred, 1821-1879

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Alfred Sully (1821-1879), army officer. From the description of Alfred Sully papers 1816-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127356 Alfred Sully, son of portrait artist Thomas Sully, was a United States Army officer and trained topographer residing in California from 1847 to 1853. During that time he married Manuela de la Guerra, a granddaughter of José de la Guerra. Sully left California in 1853, following the 1851 death of his young wife and child. From th...

United States. Army. Colorado Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1864)

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