Papers, 1753-1903.

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Papers, 1753-1903.

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Correspondence documents, military orders, and pamphlets pertaining chiefly to the career of John Rutter Brooke in the United States Army, 1861-1892. Includes: official reports of the battle of Fair Oaks, 1862; Civil War orders, 1862; war maps of Indian territory in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Shenandoah Valley; material on suppression of mob violence in New Orleans and Baton Rouge; records of Brooke's activities as commanding general in the Indian territories of Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, 1892-1898; list of names of outlaws, 1892; correspondence from military departments of La Platte, Dakota, Missouri, Omaha, Governors' Island, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota; material on military expedition in Puerto Rico, 1898-1902; appointment as peace commissioner and Governor of Puerto Rico; accounts of several expeditions in Cuba, military hospitals, barracks, railroads, governor's palace, post office, etc.; letter books, 1888-1898; index books to correspondence; printed military regulations, 1863-1899; commissions signed by Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Elihu Root; also letters of Major William Brooke on military affairs in the Philippines, 1901-1902.

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