Call Number:

WC024

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nineteenth-Century New Mexico Military Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1847-1883 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century, Invoices -- 19th century., and Proceedings -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists of nineteenth-century correspondence and documents relating to the procurement of supplies at Forts Craig, Cummings, Union, and Sumner in New Mexico.

The collection consists of correspondence and documents relating to the procurement of supplies at Forts Craig, Cummings, Union, and Sumner in New Mexico. Much of the collection reflects the problems of the army in 1865 in procuring sufficient food for the Navajo Indians who had been relocated to the Bosque Redondo Reservation near Fort Sumner during the midst of a crop failure in New Mexico. Included are correspondence between army quartermasters and private merchants regarding provisions; proceedings of a board of survey convened at Fort Sumner to ascertain the quantity and quality of stores received at the post; acknowledgments of goods received; and bills and invoices.