Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed D.M. Frost, Sioux City, to wife. This is the last of the settlements and consequently the last of post offices and mail stages so you will probably not hear from me for some time. Our passengers are in good humor and satisfied with the trip thus far. Mrs. Madison is to meet her husband who is stationed a short distance above here with 2 companies of dragoons. We hope to learn Genl. Harney’s establishing a post when we reach Fort Pierre., 1856 May 2
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:
1856 May 2