Instructions for prospectors engaged in iron-ore explorations in the surveyed region south of Lake Superior / by T.B. Brooks. [1869?]

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Instructions for prospectors engaged in iron-ore explorations in the surveyed region south of Lake Superior / by T.B. Brooks. [1869?]

1 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.

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Union College, Schaffer Library

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Brooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900

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Thomas Benton Brooks was a Union army officer and aide-de-camp to Major-General Quincy Adams Gillmore. Brooks joined the army on August 9, 1861 as a First Lieutenant in the First New York Engineers. He was promoted to captain on January 21, 1862 and to major and aide-de-camp on August 17, 1863. He received the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel for meritorious service at the siege of Fort Pulaski, and the brevet rank of full colonel for service during the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. In 1...