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BJMarkland
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 Posted - January 27 2004 : 07:31:26 AM
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I thought it would be more convenient for everyone if there was a thread devoted to research and locations to research aspects of the battle, rather than have them pop up all over in distant threads. (Boy, I am proud of that run-on sentence!  )
First entry will be a web site which acts as a central clearing house. The actual documents are put up other entities and this location just links to them. Still, well organized, and it is easier to remember one bookmark than 5-10.
http://www.soldierquest.org/index.htm
The on-line books section is on the top menu bar third from the right. Featured, which I use a lot (I downloaded the files to my PC even,) is Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army. They also have the links to the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion for the Union and Confederacy for both the Army & Navy.
Enjoy,
Billy
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bhist
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Posted - January 28 2004 : 01:57:37 AM
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This is a great idea, Billy.
I'll list my website for the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield -- http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/Soldiers-Warriors.htm -- this link is in the section, "Soldiers and Warriors" with newly updated lists of the men of the 7th and the warriors who fought at the LBH. Park Historian John Doerner and volunteers Gary and Joy Gilbert spent quite a long time working on the updates.
From the page, link noted above, look to the left at the navigation buttons -- there you'll see "Background of Project" -- Gary and Joy explain the purpose of the project. "7th Cav Muster Rolls" and "Warriors at LBH". We've just added a link to the "Custer Cemetery Registry." Also just added is, "Frontier Post c 1876" and finally "Roster Sioux War" which is the list of all the officers, soldiers, scouts, etc of all the columns that fought in the war.
Lastly, Billy Markland who started this thread provided photos of some of the officer's headstones at Ft. Leavenworth -- thanks Billy -- http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/officers-headstones.htm
We've also added photos of Custer's grave at West Point -- http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/Custers-grave.htm
You'll notice a whole new look to the website. With a lot of new stuff added, I also consolidated sections into fewer categories. If you can't find what you used to look at just click on "Site Map" at the top right of every page.
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Warmest Regards,
Bob
www.vonsworks.com
www.friendslittlebighorn.com
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Wrangler
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Posted - January 28 2004 : 02:11:34 AM
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Good idea Billy! Here are some contributions from my end:
General George Crook's 1876 Campaigns:
http://www.frontierheritage.org/abpbrpt.htm
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System:
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
Custer Battlefield Historical Museum Association
http://www.cbhma.org/
Terra Server (type in Custer Battlefield into search engine)
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/place.aspx
Newspaper Accounts of the Battle
http://www.custerslaststand.org/source/extra.html
CAVALRY TACTICS: OR, REGULATIONS FOR THE Instruction, Formations, and Movements
OF THE CAVALRY OF THE ARMY AND VOLUNTEERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
http://members.cox.net/ltclee/Cooke.htm
Guns at the Little Bighorn
http://www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Guns%20at%20the%20LBH.htm
Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html
THE GREAT SIOUX WAR 1876-1877: BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES
http://www.du.edu/~dhagen/battles.html
Map Of The Yellowstone And Missouri Rivers. Hayden, F.V. 1869
http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps3991.html
Chronological List of Indian Actions, 1866-1896
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/cgi-bin/usamhi/DL/showdoc.pl?docnum=443
Engagements with Hostile Indians, Department of Missouri, 1868-1892
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/cgi-bin/usamhi/DL/showdoc.pl?docnum=446
Warriors At Little Bighorn
http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/Warriors%20At%20Little%20Big%20Horn.htm
Deadwood Magazine, Blackhills, South Dakota
http://www.deadwoodmagazine.com/
Find A Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/index.html
Indian Wars Medal of Honor Recipients
http://www.buffalosoldier.net/INDIAN%20WARS%20MEDAL%20OF%20HONOR%20RECIPIENTS-ALL.htm
THE SEVENTH REGIMENT OF CAVALRY By MAJOR E. A. GARLINGTON, INSPECTOR GENERAL, U. S. A.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/R&H/R&H-7Cav.htm
WALTER MASON CAMP PAPERS
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/guides/camp/walter.html
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BJMarkland
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movingrobewoman
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Posted - January 29 2004 : 6:15:40 PM
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I have been spending too much time here of late, but I have found it helpful:
Library of Congress--a host of wonderment! I use mostly the "American Memory" or "Thomas" collections ...
www.loc.gov
However, I am finding it problematic to find GAC's testimony before the Joint Select Committee on Reconstruction, March, 1866 ... any ideas? |
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Wrangler
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BJMarkland
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Posted - January 30 2004 : 12:21:49 AM
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MRW, let me check the Congressional Serial Set either tomorrow or Saturday. They should have it on one of the fiche.
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movingrobewoman
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Posted - January 30 2004 : 10:48:35 AM
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Billy--thank you!
I am beating my head against the wall ... |
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BJMarkland
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Posted - January 30 2004 : 11:23:20 AM
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MRW, after a shower, I am heading over there. I will let you know what, if anything, I find this evening. I need to get going since they are calling for freezing rain tomorrow to be followed by 6-12 inches of snow so my research day tomorrow seems to be shot.
Sheesh, I just as well be in Buffalo, WY!
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movingrobewoman
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Posted - January 30 2004 : 3:24:21 PM
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Thanks again, Billy (uhh, sorry about the snow)...
Dunno if this can be of use to anybody, but this is the web address for the Native American Press archives as well as a kick-butt bibliography ...
www.anpa.ualr.edu
This site is associated with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Sequoyah Project, which is currently taking proposals for their seminar for November, 2004 ...
musings of a movingrobe ... |
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BJMarkland
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Posted - January 30 2004 : 10:04:34 PM
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MRW, found it!!!!
I will scan the images in tomorrow a.m., if the PC holds up (the hard drive is making some REAL funny noises), if I am lucky it will last.
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BJMarkland
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Posted - January 31 2004 : 1:10:19 PM
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I have scanned the images of Custer's testimony to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction and placed them at my web site. The URL for it is:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/
The entry under NEW will take you to them.
By the way, in order to find them, I had to look through the finding aid for the 39th * 40th Congress. The end result was I found GAC's testimony but more importantly, found the report to Congress on the execution of Union POWs by Gen. Geo. Pickett (yes, that one) in NC! I had read a small article about it once but the documents are a lot better.
Billy |
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movingrobewoman
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Posted - January 31 2004 : 3:51:09 PM
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Billy--
Thanks so much--got the information from your website. It's great! I am, unfortunately, more of a social/art history specialist--Custer is my first foray into anything that approaches a kind of biography or military history, but if I can help you in anyway, lemme know ...
I do have a lot of stuff running around my house about the Navajo Long Walk ...
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - June 13 2004 : 8:48:54 PM
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| movingrobewomen, you have not posted in quite sometime. Your comments are of much interest. Please post again. |
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BJMarkland
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Posted - September 21 2004 : 05:31:58 AM
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While transcribing an article dealing with the Fetterman fight from the Army and Navy Journal, I noticed a small snippet which I thought interesting.
Army and Navy Journal
January 5, 1867
Vol. IV No. 20
pg. 317
"The following officers of the cavalry arm of the service have appeared before the Board in session in Washington, D.C., and passed their examination, since last report:
George A. Forsyth, Major Ninth Cavalry;
F.W. Benteen, Captain Seventh Cavalry;
Wecklefe [sic] Cooper, Major Seventh Cavalry;
Louis N. Carpenter, Captain Tenth Cavalry;
David W. Wallingford, Second Lieutenant."
Note: Wickliffe Cooper, Major Seventh Cavalry died June 8, 1867 per Heitman's Register of the U.S. Army. Again per Heitman, Lt. Wallingford was appointed 2nd Lt. in the Seventh Cavalry July 28, 1866 and 1st Lt. on June 8, 1867.
Ironic that Forsyth and Carpenter, whose men saved Forsyth's bacon, were confirmed in the same period.
While verifying I had the right Forsyth, I stumbled upon this site, which is a fantastic find for anyone interested in the Indian Wars in Texas. Great maps. I wish I had known of this site when I was down in Dallas for weeks last year.
http://www.forttours.com/main.html
Best of wishes,
Billy
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BJMarkland
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Posted - September 21 2004 : 07:49:24 AM
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Insomnia is a wonderful thing, especially with the internet!
I found this by treking through the on-line database of the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. It is the description of the Command & General Staff College's Indian Wars Staff Ride from Armor magazine. In essence, the ride begins with the Bozeman Trail era, specifically Ft. Phil Kearny, the Fetterman Fight, and the Wagon Box fight. The second day of the ride consists of the Rosebud battlefield and the last day deals with Custer's route and fight.
http://www.knox.army.mil/armormag/so96/5ride96.pdf
The Air University Library Index can be found at:
http://www.dtic.mil/search97doc/aulimp/main.htm
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BJMarkland
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Posted - September 22 2004 : 06:49:44 AM
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I posted this link at another location this morning but felt that it should also be here.
The Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper, 1841-1902, is on-line at this URL:
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
When doing a keyword search, I have found it best to sort the results by date, either ascending or descending as you desire, in order to preserve some sense of continuity between articles. But, that is just my personal preference.
Best of wishes,
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - September 22 2004 : 9:18:41 PM
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| Great work Billy, you've supplied me with enough research information to keep me busy for sometime; again, thanks. |
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BJMarkland
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Posted - September 24 2004 : 06:47:43 AM
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Wiggs, glad to be of assistance. If you plan on purchasing any books, I recommend you visit Bob's Friends of the LBH website and go through there so that FOTLBH get a residual fee. That fee enables them to pursue projects at the site which the Federal government does not have money to support. Unfortunately for the bank account (and my marriage relationship) I did that the other morning. Of course, not a one was on the LBH proper: McDermott's Circle of Fire and Cozzen's "Eyewitness to" books I did not have: Northern Plains, Southern Plains, Pacific.
The more and more I read, the more I am convinced that the genesis of the whole Red Cloud's War and the later Great Sioux War lie in the events of 1864-1865. As I have had an abnormally rough week at work, I am going to attempt to bail out around 11 this morning and slip over to Ft. Leavenworth's CARL. I want to look through more of the back issues of the Army and Navy Journal to get a feel for the military's perception of where this all was heading. Also CARL has an extensive supply of microfilm of period Ft. Leavenworth newspapers to add the civilian perspective as well as pick up on the smaller incidents, smaller except to the individuals concerned, of the interactions between Indian and "whites." Any interesting or pertenent information I will post at my web site. One other thing I want to post and should be able to get a copy of is the Doolittle Report to read and post if not already on the web. That should be available off the U.S. Serial Set. Here is a description of that report:
"An extensive and important report, attempting to survey all the Indian tribes in the country. Known as "the Doolittle report," after the chairman of the special committee, this work gives solid testimony to the maltreatment of Indians by whites. "Lurid details of Chivington's sickening massacre of unoffending Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado" – Howes."
Oh well, back to work to pay for my vices...errrr, hobbies.
Best of wishes,
Billy
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BJMarkland
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BJMarkland
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Posted - September 24 2004 : 08:12:50 AM
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Nirvana!!!
I found these links which guarantee many bloodshot eyes to the dedicated researcher as well as the casual historian.
First, the mother lode!! The Colorado Digitalization Program has been digitalizing all the old Colorado newspapers they can find. The software used to display the articles is the same as used by the Brooklyn Eagle website. Fantastic resource, although it does do me out of a trip this fall or winter to Denver's Public Library! Here is the link.
http://www.cdpheritage.org/newspapers/index.html
Warning, a keyword search over all the archives for the full date range of the keyword Indians returned 10,045 articles so it may be wise to use the "start date/end date" parameters. The articles commenced at, I believe, 1859.
Another very nice initiative is the Western Trails digitalization project at:
http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/index.html
Partner states are WY, CO, KS and NE. If interested in a specific state, click on that state on the map. Otherwise, you can browse or search the entire collection. I found this at the KSHS web page where they have a large collection of Alexander Gardner photographs from 1867 of the construction of the Union Pacific railroad from St. Louis to Ft. Hays, KS.
Another of the CO Digitalization project initiatives is the Historic Colorado website. Here is the main link:
http://www.cdpheritage.org/heritage/index.html
I clicked on CO and Western History and am currently lost looking at photos of the Anasazi ruins, many of the photos are of artifacts found. Hope you all have broadband!
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BJMarkland
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Posted - September 25 2004 : 12:49:57 PM
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OK, found a couple of nice sites, one of which features the electronic text of both GAC's My Life on the Plains and Ware's The Indian War of 1864 as well as several others of value.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/
The parent site to the above has loads of Western history resources. That site is located at:
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/west/media.htm#dig-lib
The entire Kansas Collection may be found at:
http://www.kancoll.org/
At that site, under Articles is an interesting look at the lives of U.S. Dragoon enlisted men from 1833-1860:
http://www.kancoll.org/articles/dragoons.htm
In the Kansas Collection, you will see a link to the Kansas Historical Quarterly. That has been published since the early '30s and many articles are now on-line. One of particular interest to me is "Defense of the Kansas Frontier 1864-1865" by Marvin H. Garfield.
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1932/32_2_garfield.htm
A second Garfield article, "The Defense of the Kansas Frontier 1866-1867" can be found here:
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1932/32_4_garfield.htm
Paul Wellman wrote an article for the Quarterly which is in the August, 1932 issue entitled, "Some Famous Kansas Frontier Scouts". One of the scouts mentioned is Charley Reynolds. There is a major typo in the article, or rather the transcription, as Sharp Grover's surname is midway through turned into Sharp Drover and, unfortunately, stays that way.
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1932/32_4_wellman.htm
That should be enough to keep ya'll busy for a day or so.
Best of wishes,
Billy
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - September 26 2004 : 9:35:41 PM
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Billy, you are too much. You've given us enough research material to last a few years! Not complaining!!! It's great!!! You too Bob and Wrangler! |
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BJMarkland
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - September 30 2004 : 9:23:01 PM
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Billy, I read your information regarding Custer's involvement at the battle of Waynesboro. The author writes, "Any balanced appraisal of Custer as a soldier must be remembered for what he did in March, 1865."
He then writes of Custer's brillant Generalship which brought about a substantial victory.
I guess the operative adjective here is "balanced."
Something we have too little of on the forum. (I include myself in this observation.) |
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