Volume 5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
label: Collection Photographer
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
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879 July 8 to 1879 November 11
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content: Box 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
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: Volume 5 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index, though it has only one handwritten entry. This volume includes the following topics: debate over expanding the authorized number of Army retirees, the Zulu War in South Africa, the Afghan War, New York politics, Sitting Bull, water rates and taxes, and the excessive summer heat of 1879.

Meigs included many articles pertaining to the military retiree debate, a debate that personally affected him since he was one of the officers who could not retire unless the authorized number of retired Army officers was expanded. There are also many lengthy accounts of the Zulu and Afghan wars being waged by Great Britain. Meigs included several stories on recent and noteworthy natural history and arcaheological finds, as well as illustrations. There is some weather information related to the extreme heat in Washington, D.C. (summer 1879), the Civil War and its aftermath, and the reappearance of Sitting Bull and the Army's attempts to deal with him and other Native American groups.

Some of the publications represented in this scrapbook are the Army and Navy Journal, The Sunday Herald, The Sentinel, the The New-York Daily Tribune, The Evening Star, and The Daily Graphic.