1p, 7.25 x 10 in., Chicago, May 2, 1878. Headquarters Mil. Div. of the Missouri, Special Orders No. 35 ordering Ben Clark, Indian Interpreter, ...in charge of three Nez Perce Indian prisoners, to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and there report with these Indians to the Commanding General Department of Dakota,... Signed by George Forsyth, ADC to General Sheridan. Bottom of page has Ben Clark Ind. Interpreter in purple ink in period hand, and sideways across orders in red ink Transportation furnished for Benj. Clark and 3 Indians from Chicago to St. Paul by Major Jas. M. (?) Qr. Mr. USA May 2 / 78. Benjamin Clark (1841-1914) was born in St. Louis in 1841. In 1857 he joined General Albert Sidney Johnston's expedition to Salt Lake City. At Fort Bridger, Clark's freighting party was mustered into service as a volunteer battalion, and he remained on the Army rolls for most of his life. He spent most of the Civil War in Kansas and the West, and in 1868 was in command of the scouts who led the 7th Cavalry to the Washita River, where they attacked Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle's winter camp. He was instrumental in saving a number of women and children during that engagement, one young Cheyenne woman eventually becoming his wife. He had three Cheyenne wives, and at least 11 children by the third (Moka). She and five of their children are buried near him at Fort Reno, which was his "permanent base" after about 1878. Clark was said to understand Cheyenne culture better than any other white man, and wrote an ethnography in the late 1880s. The document was reviewed in the first Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association in 1907. George Alexander Forsyth (1837-1915) joined the Chicago Dragoons immediately after Lincoln's call went out in April 1861. He remained in service after the Civil War, and like most of the active military, was sent West to "control" the Indian populations. He led 50 frontiersmen and scouts against the Cheyennes in September 1868. He and his men were pinned down for nearly a week on an island in the Arickaree Fork of the Republican River in Colorado, later known as Beecher's Island (as was the battle) for 1st Lieut. Frederick Beecher who was killed in the action. He also accompanied Custer on his 1874 Black Hills expedition, and published his journal of the events in the Chicago Tribune. He was military secretary to Sheridan 1869-1873 and his ADC 1878-1881. After that he was sent to the Southwest, where he was involved in engagements against Geronimo, Juh and Loco, before being appointed commander of Fort Huachuca, AZ in 1887. After his retirement he published several books on life in the Army. An Indian Wars rarity bringing together two of the great participants in this era of American History.
1p, 7.25 x 10 in., Chicago, May 2, 1878. Headquarters Mil. Div. of the Missouri, Special Orders No. 35 ordering Ben Clark, Indian Interpreter, ...in charge of three Nez Perce Indian prisoners, to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and there report with these Indians to the Commanding General Department of Dakota,... Signed by George Forsyth, ADC to General Sheridan. Bottom of page has Ben Clark Ind. Interpreter in purple ink in period hand, and sideways across orders in red ink Transportation furnished for Benj. Clark and 3 Indians from Chicago to St. Paul by Major Jas. M. (?) Qr. Mr. USA May 2 / 78. Benjamin Clark (1841-1914) was born in St. Louis in 1841. In 1857 he joined General Albert Sidney Johnston's expedition to Salt Lake City. At Fort Bridger, Clark's freighting party was mustered into service as a volunteer battalion, and he remained on the Army rolls for most of his life. He spent most of the Civil War in Kansas and the West, and in 1868 was in command of the scouts who led the 7th Cavalry to the Washita River, where they attacked Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle's winter camp. He was instrumental in saving a number of women and children during that engagement, one young Cheyenne woman eventually becoming his wife. He had three Cheyenne wives, and at least 11 children by the third (Moka). She and five of their children are buried near him at Fort Reno, which was his "permanent base" after about 1878. Clark was said to understand Cheyenne culture better than any other white man, and wrote an ethnography in the late 1880s. The document was reviewed in the first Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association in 1907. George Alexander Forsyth (1837-1915) joined the Chicago Dragoons immediately after Lincoln's call went out in April 1861. He remained in service after the Civil War, and like most of the active military, was sent West to "control" the Indian populations. He led 50 frontiersmen and scouts against the Cheyennes in September 1868. He and his men were pinned down for nearly a week on an island in the Arickaree Fork of the Republican River in Colorado, later known as Beecher's Island (as was the battle) for 1st Lieut. Frederick Beecher who was killed in the action. He also accompanied Custer on his 1874 Black Hills expedition, and published his journal of the events in the Chicago Tribune. He was military secretary to Sheridan 1869-1873 and his ADC 1878-1881. After that he was sent to the Southwest, where he was involved in engagements against Geronimo, Juh and Loco, before being appointed commander of Fort Huachuca, AZ in 1887. After his retirement he published several books on life in the Army. An Indian Wars rarity bringing together two of the great participants in this era of American History.
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