Letters received by the Office of the Adjutant General, 1856, 1860.

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Letters received by the Office of the Adjutant General, 1856, 1860.

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Letters detailing matters at two nineteenth-century Minnesota frontier outposts: Fort Ridgely and Upper Agency at Yellow Medicine. The twenty-page correspondence (1856) from Fort Ridgely concerns the salary of Peter Quinn, the fort's interpreter. Captain Gibson's ten-page report (July 11, 1860) from Camp Lexington, Upper Agency, Yellow Medicine, to Captain Jones discusses treaty relations between the government and the Dakotas, treaty administration, and agency and military conditions. Includes a sketch map.

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United States. Adjutant-General's Office

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The Continental Congress on June 17, 1775, appointed an Adjutant General of the Continental Army. After 1783 no further provision was made for such an officer until an act of March 5, 1792, provided for an adjutant, who was also to do the work of inspector. An act of March 3, 1813, established an Adjutant General's Department and an Inspector General's Department which were united the following July under one head, the Adjutant and Inspector General. Separate heads for the two Depar...

Quinn, Peter, 1797?-1862.

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Gibson, A. A.

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