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Item #009916 1847 – Letter from a Captain in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers...

1847 – Letter from a Captain in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers identifying soldiers that had died during in the Navaho Expedition so their names could be published in the Liberty, Missouri Tribune.

El Paso, Texas, 1847. Unbound. This one-page stampless folded letter written on “Tuesday 26th” [January 1847] by Captain John T. Hughes, Company C, 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers is a postscript to a letter he had written newspaper editor the day before while at El Paso, Texas, shortly after seizing the..... More

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Item #009988 1843 – Letter from an important missionary at the Oneida Duck Creek Reservation in...

1843 – Letter from an important missionary at the Oneida Duck Creek Reservation in Wisconsin describing his effort “endeavoring to labor for the good of the Indians.”

Duck Creek Reservation, Wisconsin: 1843. Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless letter measures 15½” x 12½” unfolded. It was sent by Henry Root Colman to his brother-in-law, Richard P. Speir, who had recently settled in New Orleans. It is datelined “Duck Creek June 17th 1843” and bares a manuscript postmark..... More

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Item #009949 1864-1868 – Three letters from a Michigan Civil War Medal of Honor Awardee: one...

1864-1868 – Three letters from a Michigan Civil War Medal of Honor Awardee: one reporting on actions in Tennessee, one describing the aftermath of the crater explosion at Petersburg and the third recounts his new post-war life in Missouri during the Reconstruction

Petersburg, Virginia and Knob Noster, Missouri: 1864 & 1868. Envelope or Cover. The first of these three letters contains four pages and is datelined “Annapolis Maryland / April 8th 1864. Although unsigned, it is in the same hand as the other two letters and was found in the same lot..... More

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Item #009982 1828 – Letter from Joseph Rolette at Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory to...

1828 – Letter from Joseph Rolette at Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory to Pierre Chouteau in St. Louis, the two most important agents of John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Trading Company, reporting that “the Indians are peaceful altho’ intrusions” have been made into “ their lands in search of mineral oar.”

Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory: 1828. Envelope or Cover. This four-page stampless letter has one page of text and measures 16” x 10” unfolded. It is datelined “Prairie du Chien 20th Jany 1828” and bears a very fine example of a scarce Michigan Territory, manuscript postmark (see ASCC Vol 1..... More

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