Collection of correspondence, order books, reports, manuals and clippings, most of which pertain to army activity on the frontier. Among the correspondents are General Henry Atkinson, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, William Clark, Stephen Watts Kearny, James Kennerly, Henry Leavenworth, Edgar M. Ledyard, Sterling Price, Robert Simpson, Colonel Josiah Snelling, and Daniel Webster. Subjects discussed include misconduct of soldiers, medical problems, Indian relations (Sioux, Sussitongs, Winnebagoes, Choctaw, and Pawnee) and military sites (Forts Prairie du Chien, St. Anthony, Belle Fontaine [Bellefontaine], Leavenworth, Gibson, Atkinson, Armstrong, and the St. Louis Arsenal). Collection also includes a 1694 account of military operations in Flanders against the Prince of Orange; two books (French translations from the original German) of the King of Prussia's Military Instructions for his Generals (1761); order book of the 22nd Regiment of Infantry with headquarters at Sackett's Harbor (1813-1815) includes court martial cases, abstracts of morning reports, detail rosters, and rosters (137 pages); and the order book and record of court martials of the 6th Regiment of Infantry with headquarters at Fort Atkinson (1826). Collection also includes an unidentified record book, of unknown provenance, that contains printed and manuscript orders, guidelines, procedures, etc., issued by the United States Army pay office, paymaster general's office, commissary general, comptroller's office, and adjutant inspector's office, in relation to the provisioning of the United States "Peace Establishment," in the years before, during, and after the War of 1812 (notation on spine of record book reads, "Colonel Andrews[?] Military Papers"). Various items in the volume include schedules of compensation allowed to troops in the U.S. Army, lists of clothing allowed each soldier, regulation of army collection, 1694; 1761; 1764; 1804-1939. (cont.) rations, warrants for military bounty lands, extracts of correspondence, extracts of congressional acts, and general orders.

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	Clark, William Forts Military - Army Military - United States Politics and Government War of 1812 Westward Expansion
Records are in:	English
	French
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Preferred Citation Army Collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.