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R         Bennett, L. G. (Lyman G.).

274                  Collection, 1857‑1865.

                                    Ten folders.

 

 

 

These are diaries and topographic maps of a civil engineer, member of the 36th Illinois In­fan­try, and civilian employee of the U. S. Army.  The materials concern homesteading in Minne­sota in 1857; cam­paigning in Missouri and Arkansas with the Army of Southwest Missouri, 1861‑1862; map­ping in Kan­sas and Colorado in 1865; and the Powder River Indian Expedition in Nebraska and Wyo­ming in 1865.

 

 

Folder 1:  Diary, 1 January‑‑31 December 1857 (photocopy of original, Lyman L. Bennett, 183 pp.).

 

Folder 2:  Diary, 19 August‑‑20 December 1861 (photocopy of typescript from Lyman L. Ben­nett, 74 pp.).

 

Folder 3:  Diary, 21 December 1861‑‑4 April 1862 (original from Lyman L. Bennett, 189 pp.).

 

Folder 4:  Diary, 21 December 1861‑‑4 April 1862 (photocopy of original from John C. Ben­nett, 189 pp.).

 

Folder 5:  Diary, 21 December 1861‑‑4 April 1862 (photocopy of typescript from John C. Ben­nett, 114 pp.).

 

Folder 6:  “Route of the Army of the Southwest,” 1862 (photocopy of original from John C. Ben­nett, 61 pp.).

 

Folder 7:  Diary, 1 January‑‑4 October 1865 (original from Lyman L. Bennett, 186 pp.).

 

Folder 8:  Diary, 1 January‑‑4 October 1865 (photocopy of original from John C. Bennett, 186 pp.).

 

Folder 9:  Diary [author unknown], 29 Ju1y‑‑14 September 1865 (original from Lyman L. Ben­nett, 72 pp.).

 

Folder 10: Diary [author unknown], 29 Ju1y‑‑14 September 1865 (photocopy of typescript pre­pared by Helen Davenport, from Lyman L. Bennett, 24 pp.).

 

 


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