Requisitions : for subsistence stores ... Fort Union, New Mexico ..., 1866 Apr. 27-June 22.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

McClure, Charles, b. 1838.

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United States. Army. District of New Mexico

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Fort Sumner was established on November 30, 1862 and located in the Bosque Redondo on the east bank of the Pecos River. In 1863, 7,000 Navajos from Canyon de Chelly were forced to move there, where they were confined during a period of disastrous crop failures, until 1868. The post was then auctioned off. The other forts were mainly established in the mid- 1800s, and were all abandoned by the mid-1890s. From the description of Records, 1851-1883 (bulk 1863-1866). (University of Arizo...

Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873

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Carleton was born in Lubec, Maine. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1839, during the Aroostook War, and took part in the Mexican–American War. He served in the 1st U.S. Dragoons in the American West, participating as a lieutenant in an 1844 expedition to the Pawnee and the Oto. One of Carleton's children, Henry Guy Carleton (1852–1910) was a journalist, playwright, and inventor. In May 1859, Maj. Carleton and K Company of the 1st Dragoons out of Fort Tejon, California, ...

Shoemaker, William R. (William Rawle), 1809-1886

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Thompson, John A., d. 1867.

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Fort Union (N.M.)

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The largest U.S. Army post guarding the southwestern frontier, Fort Union was established in 1851 in northeastern New Mexico near the junction of the Mountain and Cimarron branches of the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Union served as a tactical base and supply depot for lesser posts throughout the region as well as a way station for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. A separate ordnance arsenal also occupied the site. With the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1879, Fort Union's ...

Fort Union Arsenal (N.M.)

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