Box 1
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Letter signed Frost to wife. The garrison, with the exception of 20 men, have been ordered with all the officers to take the field, and all building and preparations for the winter have ceased. The whole rifle regiment are wandering over these desert plains of western Texas without a point on the footstool that no one can call “home.” We will last, we presume, as long as the Indians adhere to their horse-stealing propensities. Discussion of sleeping on the ground; newspapers abusing all regular troops like pickpockets; General changing headquarters to Corpus Christi, which offends the people of San Antonio and who, in turn, take revenge on the army through their newspapers., 1852 Oct 21
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 Oct 21