The Crook-Kennon papers, 1830-1923.

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The Crook-Kennon papers, 1830-1923.

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Contains the following types of materials: correspondence / letters, memoirs, organizational documents, diary / journal, maps / charts, clippings. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time period: Civil War -- Western and Eastern Theater, late Indian Wars, 1865-1891. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: (Crook): 4th United States (U.S.) Infantry Regiment; 36th Ohio Infantry Regiment; Provisional and Second Brigades, Kanawha Division; Crook's Brigade, Army of Kentucky; 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV (14th) Army Corps; 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland; 2nd Division, Army of West Virginia; 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac; 3rd and 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiments; District of Boise and Departments (Depts.) of the Columbia, Arizona, and the Platte; Military Division of the Missouri. (Kennon): 6th Infantry Regiment; assistant adjutant general (AG) and acting chief of staff, Dept. of Cuba; 34th Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 1st and 3rd Brigades, VIII (8th) Army Corps; 10th, 7th, 14th, 25th, 26th, and 9th Infantry Regiments; 3rd Brigade, 15th Provisional Division; 1st Brigade, 12th Provisional Division; 171st Infantry Brigade; 86th Infantry Division; Camp Greene, North Carolina. General description of the collection: The Crook-Kennon papers include holdings of the papers of the Union general and Indian fighter George Crook and one of his aides-de-camp, Lyman Kennon. Three manuscript autobiographies (1852-1876, 1852-1965, and 1856-1857) of Crook; his West Point account book (1848-1852); a memorandum book (1871-1873 and 1878); and diaries (1885-1890) are included. There is a letter from Captain Samuel D. Sturgis III to "Dear Bugs," written several years after 1936, concerning Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, Sr., Second Lieutenant James G. Sturgis, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer, and Crook as Indian fighters, regarding the Battle of Little Big Horn. Also included is correspondence (1874-1890); material dealing with Crook's death (March 22, 1890); some miscellaneous papers; correspondence of family members (1890-1891); and five volumes of newspaper clippings covering his entire career, especially his operations against Indians following the Civil War. One volume of clippings contains newspaper articles pasted over a diary kept by his sister-in-law, Fannie A. Dailey, in 1871; fragments of this journal remain visible around the clippings. There are biographies of him by two of his staff officers, L.W.V. Kennon (1830-1863) and Major Azor H. Nickerson (1866-1890).

4 boxes.

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