Papers of George A. McCall, 1831-1853.

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Papers of George A. McCall, 1831-1853.

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Miscellaneous papers accumulated by McCall's during the antebellum stage of his military career. Included are correspondence, dispatches, communications, and other military records related to the Black Hawk War, the 2nd Seminole War, and McCall's service as the Inspector General of the Army in charge of Pacific and Western territorial divisions. Also included are McCall's letters to his father Archibald McCall written during the Seminole War, letters of recommendation and other correspondents regarding McCall's proposed promotion to the rank of Assistant Adjutant General of the Western Division (1838), and a brevet for this service in the Seminole War (1843), and the correspondence related to McCall's resignation from the Army in 1853. Correspondents include John Reynolds, William Jenkins Worth, Samuel Cooper, Edmund P. Gaines, Winfield Scott, William Dayton Lewis, and others. There is also a small group of materials dealing with Indian affairs in Texas and New Mexico territory in 1849-1850: a few pieces of the official correspondence of George Mercer Brooke, the commander of the 8th Military Department, related to the Indian affairs in Texas in 1849-1850, including outrages committed by Indian traders, and a copy of James S. Calhoun's proclamation to the Pueblo Indians with the related correspondence.

49 pieces.1 box.

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