Daniel O. Drennan papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4750
Subjects: Government relations; Nez Percé Indians; Fortification; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890; Officers; Wars, 1877; Boundaries; Massacres; National parks and reserves; History; Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864; United States. Army; Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; Indians of North America; Dakota Indians; Wars, 1890-1891; Wars; Fires; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); United States
Description: Correspondence, diaries, military dispatches, reports, notes, documents, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed material, architectural drawings, memorabilia, and other papers relating to General Philip Henry Sheridan's battlefield command in Virginia in the last months of the Civil War, administration of Reconstruction policy, and actions along the Mexican border.  Subjects include other military officers; Indian affairs; Yellowstone National Park; the Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; the Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890; and Fort Dearborn, Illinois.   Other materials include annual reports submitted to the U.S. secretary of war by General of the Army William T. Sherman documenting military activities in the West, the Nez Percé uprising, and other Indian campaigns; an account by Colonel A.S. Tracy of the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va., 1864; and a muster roll of militia volunteers from New York dated April 26, 1861.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, transcripts. [S.l.].

Gift, Mrs. Charles H. Kneessi, 1946.

U.S. Army clerk to General Philip Sheridan from 1865 until Sheridan's death in 1888.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007070

Some material transferred to Manuscript Division's Philip Henry Sheridan papers in 1960.