Papers of Dorsey Mahon McPherson, 1863-1938 (bulk 1878-1883).

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Papers of Dorsey Mahon McPherson, 1863-1938 (bulk 1878-1883).

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Include official papers,1874-1883, documenting McPherson's service as an army surgeon in the Arizona territory, at Fort Apache, Fort Grant, Fort Thomas, and Fort Verde; orders, invoices, sick reports, and a lengthy sanitary report providing descriptions of nearby geography, climate, plant and animal life, and Indians, as well as of the fort and soldiers' health. Also includes drafts', 1933, of his memoirs, "Letters of a Tenderfoot"; his recollections, 1936; tintypes, 1879-1888, of McPherson and Thomas Cruse; two special pencil sketches by Cruse; eleven pen and ink sketches by A.G. Tassin, and twenty-one stereographs, of all Arizona territory, McPherson and friends, and camp life; miscellaneous printed material, 1863-1938; and two photographs, 1938, of McPherson and Cruse. Also include correspondence, 1878-1880, with his future wife, Ida Deland (McPherson), in which he discusses his trip, the Arizona territory, camp life, southwest society, and his activities with the troops in the field while pursuing Victorio and his tribe of Apaches, including a description of an African-American cavalry troop. Also mentions friends Walter Reed, Thomas Cruse, and Charles B. Gatewood.

300 (ca.) items.

University of Virginia. Library

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McPherson, Dorsey Mahon, b. 1857.

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United States Army Surgeon, who served in the Arizona Territory. From the description of Papers of Dorsey Mahon McPherson, 1863-1938 (bulk 1878-1883). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135494 ...

Gatewood, Charles B.

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Reed, Walter, 1851-1902

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Tassin, A. G.

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McPherson, Ida Deland.

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