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Journal of a military reconnaissance from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the Navajo country : made with the troops under command of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John M. Washington, chief of Ninth Military Department, and governor of New Mexico, in 1849
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Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849. Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel "for the gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Contreras and Churubusco"
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Letters that Edward Kirby wrote to his wife and eldest son Jake between 1827 and July 1848 constitute the largest portion of the collection. Kirby's peacetime letters describe his travels in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York State, and his trips to Washington, D.C., and discuss family news, business investments, the management of his two-thousand acre farm, the increasingly complicated financial affairs, the fallout from the Panic of 1837, and local news, including the events of the Patriot War (1837) in the neighboring Canada. Kirby, a leader of the local Whigs, also discusses state and national politics, in particular the internal improvements, protective tariff, and the annexation of Texas. Kirby also recounts Washington news and rumors and comments on various aspects of military life as well as the news of the Second Seminole War.
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Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Browne : with three enclosures. Ordered [by the House of Lords] to be printed 3d October 1820
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