Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed D.M. Frost, Fort Ewell, Tex., to wife. By now, because of the sun, my skin is colored a dark mahogany. At last the great expedition to the Rio Grande has got off and left Capt. Jones and myself with our companies busily engaged preparing winter quarters. The Col. with the last company left here a few days since and I suppose is busily engaged slaughtering the savages by this time. You will have heard that the massacre of Merry’s command turns out as humbug before you read this., 1852 Aug 29
Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises papers of the Kennett and Frost families, including notes and receipts of the Kennett, White and Company, circa 1840; letters of D.M. Frost to his wife from Texas in 1852 regarding Indian wars and letters dated 1856 regarding the Sioux War; diary of Edwin Harrison, 1858, which concerns the social life of St. Louis; and Civil War letters of Ferdinand Kennett, Jr. (Confederate) to his parents, 1864. (The Kennett family left Selma Hall and moved to St. Louis during...
Dates:
1852 Aug 29