Alfred Howe Terry correspondence and journal
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Military bases; Military life; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Fortification; Military History; United States. Army
Description: Journal (1876 May 17-August 22) of Terry's expedition from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, to the Bighorn-Powder River region of Montana, giving information on Gen. George A. Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, as well as on troop movements and routine military matters.  The journal also contains miscellaneous notes, lists, sketches, and mathematical figuring.  Includes a letter (1875 March 17) from Terry to Gen. C.A. Carleton.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 17,203.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.

Gift, Elizabeth S. Stevens, 1917.

Gift, Robert H. French, 1954.

Army officer.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.