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Anne E. Bingham reminiscences
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P56
Overview
Reminiscences of life on a farm near Junction City following migration west in 1869. Sixteen years on a Kansas farm, 1870-1886.
Dates:
1869, 1870-1886, 1921
Ella Dewey Woart letter to her grandmother
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P830
Overview
This six-page letter was written in the spring of 1874 from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by Ella Dewey Woart, daughter of John Woart, post chaplain at the fort. Having arrived at Fort Leavenworth with her parents the previous fall, Ella writes to her grandmother, describing the appearance of the fort, her family's quarters, her father's work, and the inhabitants at the fort and in the nearby town of Leavenworth.
Dates:
May 19, 1874
General orders regarding Nez Perce prisoners at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P106
Overview
Orders issued by Captain J. J. Coppinger detailing the personnel and duties of a guard for Nez Perce prisoners-of-war encamped near the fort. The order is signed by P. T. Brodrick, 1st Lt. and Adjutant 23rd Infantry, Post Adjutant and by 1st Lt. W. P. Manning, 23rd Infantry.
Dates:
November 28, 1877
James Henry Lane Papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 28
Overview
The collection includes correspondence, notes and source material, clippings, maps, photographs, documents, and other related items, dating primarily from 1841-1923.
Dates:
1841 - 1923
Jesse T. Roberts land certificate
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q436
Overview
Land certificate deeding real property to Jesse T. Roberts from the Delaware tribe, as recorded by the register at the Land Office at Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory.
Dates:
May 6, 1854
Leavenworth, Kansas photographs
Collection
Call Number: RH PH 109
Overview
Photographs of Leavenworth Kansas.
Dates:
approximately 1867-1900
Letter to Dr. C. Keeny, Liberty, Mo, Camp Leavenworth
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P174
Overview
Discusses disorder of his horse. Refers to illness of Lt. Walker.
Dates:
August 8, 1827
Letter to General Heath from Colonel Simeon Smith
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P29
Overview
Col. Smith thanks Gen. Heath for the suggestion that a new assignment in Santa Fe might be profitable. He then relates his frustrated attempts to secure a transfer to duty in St. Paul. Letter dated Leavenworth, Kansas. On back side note in another handwriting: "Col. Sim Smith, March 20, 69 Ans. my letter rel. to his coming to N[ew] M[exico]."
Dates:
March 20, 1869
Letter to "My dear Manning". Dated Headquarters, Department of the Missouri, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P31
Overview
Letter, [18]86 Oct. 25, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. [to William C.], Manning from O.B. Willcox. Willcox thanks Manning for his congratulations of Willcox becoming commander of the Army Dept. of the Missouri, headquartered at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Paper watermarked: Belfast lancers, trademark registered 1877.
Dates:
October 25, 1886
Letter to William Pierce, 1854
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P481
Overview
Letter written by C.C. Andrews in Fort Leavenworth to his friend, William Pierce.
Dates:
September 11, 1854
Letters of Forrest W. Bassett (Company A, 6th Field Battalion, U.S. Signal Corps), while in training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 612
Overview
This collection consists of eighty-one letters and two postcards written from July 1917 to May 1918 by U.S. Army Signal Corpsman Forrest W. Bassett of Beloit, Wisconsin, while stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Most of Bassett's letters are to Ava Marie Shaw of Beloit, to whom he writes of his affection and of his drills and training for World War I military service as a radio operator.
Dates:
1917 - 1918
Lewis A. Waterman letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 515
Overview
The Lewis A. Waterman Collection contains twenty-nine letters that were written by him from 1864 to 1865 while serving in the United States Signal Corps, stationed chiefly at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The collection also includes cartes de visites of Waterman's Signal Corps comrades at Fort Leavenworth.
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Lt. B.A. Linett letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P28
Overview
Letter to the editor of the Globe, Washington, D. C. Dated Fort Leavenworth, January 30, 1837.
Dates:
January 30, 1837
Special Order No. 211. (Extract). By order of the Secretary of War. Washington, D. C.
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P30
Overview
Orders call for First Lieutenant Jacob W. Keller, unassigned, to report to Colonel Thomas H. Roger, 18th. U.S. Infantry, President of the Retiring Board at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Dates:
August 19, 1870
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