Family Papers, 1859-1868.

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Family Papers, 1859-1868.

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Correspondence, maps, and other papers, relating to the death of Lt. Lyman S. Kidder (1842-1867) and 10 members of Company M, 2d U.S. Cavalry, in a battle with Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Beaver Creek, Kansas, July 1867. Includes an official report on the battle by Gen. George A. Custer, a list of men killed with him, a sketch map of the country covered by the 7th Cavalry during the summer of 1867, and newspaper articles. Correspondents include Custer, John B. Sanborn, William T. Sherman, and officers at Fort Sedgwick, Colorado and Fort Wallace, Kansas. The political material concerns Judge Kidder's career.

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

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Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Kidder, J. P. (Jefferson Parish), 1814-1883

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Attorney, politician, judge. In 1865 Kidder was appointed an associate justice of the Dakota Territorial Supreme Court. In 1876 he stepped down to run as a delegate to the United State Congress, in which capacity he served for four years. Upon his return to Dakota in 1880 he was reappointed to the judgeship which he held until his death. From the description of Family Papers, 1859-1868. (South Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 39179311 ...

Kidder, Lyman Stockwell, 1842-1867

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Sanborn, John B. (John Benjamin), 1826-1904

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American lawyer and soldier. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1869 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634500 John B. Sanborn was born in Epsom, New Hampshire, December 5, 1826, the youngest of five children. Interested in the law, he attended one quarter at Dartmouth College (1851-1852) but left to join the law office of Asa Fowler in Concord. He was admitted to the bar in 1854, and moved West, settling in St...

United States. Army. Cavalry, 2nd U.S. Company M.

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