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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. With Foote's name handwritten on front cover in ink.

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With signed endorsement of Assistant Adjutant General John C. Kelton. Includes transcription.

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With signed endorsement of Assistant Adjutant General John C. Kelton. Includes transcription.

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Attached to Co. D Assignable Recruits under Bvt Maj R.L. Burnett. Signed endorsement illegible. Includes transcription.

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Order to travel from Fort Columbus, New York to California aboard the Steamer San Francisco. Signed endorsement illegible. Includes transcription.

Scope and Contents Short entries made at irregular intervals during Foote's voyage from New York to California via Nicaragua aboard the Steamer San Francisco. Foote records locations reached, weather, financial transactions, daily pastimes, and significant events in his detachment such as deaths and desertions. Includes two small hand-drawn maps of routes in Nevada, along with Foote's accounts of a cholera outbreak in Nicaragua that claimed the lives of several of his fellow soldiers (2-5 January 1867), a...

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Writing to his mother as he approaches Nicaragua, Foote describes the course his detachment will take from Grey Town to San Juan del Sur and explains the delay in his promotion to 1st Lieutenant. Includes transcription.

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For Peter Deitz and John Jordan , who died of cholera at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua on 5 January 1867. Includes information about Deitz and Jordan, their death, and their possessions. With signed endorsement of Morris C. Foote.

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Describes sanitary conditions aboard the Steamships San Francisco and America, the detachment's course through Nicaragua, and an outbreak of cholera among U.S. soldiers in Nicaragua. With signed endorsement of Lieutenant J. Carroll, 14th U.S. Infantry. Includes transcription.

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Confirming Adjutant and Regimental Quartermaster appointments and assigning Officers to Companies. Includes transcription.

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Concerning Army Regulations 1548 and 1549. Includes transcription.

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Foote to travel from Angel Island, California to Camp Ruby, Nevada with recruits for Ninth Infantry Company I, then return to Angel Island. Includes transcription.

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Foote assigned to remain on duty at Camp Ruby, attached to Ninth Infantry Company I inter alia. With signed endorsement of Assistant Adjutant General John P. Sherburne.

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Of $2.00 for one barrel of water from M.C. Foote, with signed endorsement of M. Labeau. 2 copies.

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To General Devin concerning march from Ft. Churchill to Camp Ruby. With signed endorsement of Morris C. Foote. Includes transcription.

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Relinquishment of command to Second Lieutenant J.F. Trout. Includes transcription.

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Of $76.75, effects of deceased Pvt. Henry Judson, from M.C. Foote. With signed endorsement of Lieutenant J.F. Trout. Two copies. Includes transcription.

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With signed endorsement of Assistant Adjutant General John P. Sherburne.

Scope and Contents Daily entries (with a small number of exceptions) of varying length from Foote's service in Sitka, Alaska and in the Department of the Platte. Foote records his military duties (officer of the day, court martials, mess duty), off-duty activities (social visits, reading, correspondence), financial transactions and health, the weather, and the arrival and departure of ships from Sitka. Includes accounts of a pair of conflicts with local indigenous groups (31 March 1868 and 1-3 January 1869),...

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On the execution of Special Order No. 318. Includes transcription.

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With signed endorsement of Assistant Adjutant General John C. Kelton. Includes transcription.

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Includes transcription.

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With signed endorsement of Second Lieutenant James E. Eastman. Includes transcription.

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With signed endorsement of Bvt. Maj. Charles O. Wood, Capt. 9th Infantry.

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Accompanying delivery of receipts.

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Transmitting the report of acting inspector of customs concerning the Youkon River and the Islands of St. Paul and St. George.

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Transmitting a letter from the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, asking for an appropriation to survey Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

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Leave of absence approval. With signed endorsement of Assistant Adjutant General George D. Ruggles.

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Leave of absence extension. Signed endorsement illegible.