Papers, 1856-1891.

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Priestley, Thomas, 1836-1890. Papers, 1856-1891.

Papers, 1856-1891.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145789012

Correspondence of Captain Thomas Priestley of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, describing his own or his friends' experiences, 1858-1860, at Placerville, California, Read's Landing, Minnesota, and Blue River, Utah Territory; letters written and received during the Civil War in which he served with the 11th and 30th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; a diary for 1864 containing accounts of a scouting expedition from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory (diary missing, 1993); and a few letters, 1887-1889, received while he was Indian agent at Yakima, Washington Territory.

0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project