Volume 2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
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content: Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers / Series 1: Scrapbooks
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content: 1876 July 30 to 1883 Januray 13
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content: Box 1
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Text
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content: The topics in Volume 2 include the Battle of Little Big Horn, Apache Uprisings, Ute Commission, Sitting Bull, Victoria and his band of Apaches, raids on settlements by Native Americans and skirmishes with soldiers, issues with Northwest Native uprisings, and Alaskan Native American uprisings. Volume Two has numbered pages with an index at the front (though there are no notes in the index). Meigs's entries stop on page 67.

There are articles related to Sitting Bull and the Sioux, especially as they pertain to the Battle of Little Big Horn and Sitting Bull's surrender. There are also a number of articles dealing with the Apache, especially in the articles dating from 1879 onward (Victoria and his band figure prominently throughout this portion of the scrapbook). Meigs included several articles on Army logistics and financial concerns related to the Indian Wars published in military journals. There are also clippings that relate to general Native American raids, and the fears they aroused as well as constant reference to "Indian Troubles." Some of the Native groups mentioned are the Sioux, the Nez Perce, Apache, Ute, and Cheyenne. There are two publications that figure prominently through the scrapbook: the The New-York Daily Tribune and the Army and Navy Journal. Many of the clippings are official Army reports and letters from participants of in the events.