Manuscripts

Returns of camp and garrison equipage

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Description: These reports document the movement of military supplies to and from San Francisco. Each page corresponds to one quarter of the year, with the first four pages covering 1847 and the fifth page covering the first quarter of 1848.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1847-1848.
Call number: mssHM 306
Creator: Dimmick, Kimball Hale (1812-1861)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from F.H. Dimmick, 1924.
Dimensions: 30 cm :

Returns of ordnance stores

Manuscripts

These reports document military ordnance received and on hand at San Francisco. Each of the six pages correspond to a quarter of the calendar year, from the second quarter of 1847 through the third quarter of 1848.

mssHM 307

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Returns of Captain Dimmick's company

Manuscripts

This group of manuscripts describes the status of the commissioned officers and soldiers of Company K, First Regiment of New York Volunteers, under the command of Captain Dimmick. The forms are dated between September 1846 and May 1848.

mssHM 309

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Estimate of clothing and equipage to be forwarded to...the sixth regiment of infantry

Manuscripts

This document is the "Estimate of Clothing and Equipage to be forwarded from Philadelphia for the Sixth Regiment of Infantry for the year commencing on the first of November, 1847, and ending on the thirty-first of October, 1848." It is signed by Assistant Quartermaster General Henry Stanton. It includes equipment, including uniforms and clothing items, bedding, colors, drums, etc., that were sent to the U.S. 6th Infantry at Fort Gibson and Fort Washita, Oklahoma.

mssHM 81290

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The Volunteer's Vision

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a poem written by Dimmick while on board the United States ship "Loo Choo" in the South Pacific Ocean. The poem describes the scene, and speaks, in glowing language, of Dimmick's military involvement as a military volunteer in California. After the poem is a small note from Dimmick addressed to "Friend Pellet", informing him that he is welcome to publish the poem if he is so disposed. Dimmick also asks that a copy of the poem be sent to his wife, and laments that "I have not yet had a single letter from home."

mssHM 4012

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Kimball Hale Dimmick letter to Sarah Dimmick

Manuscripts

In this letter to his wife, Kimball Dimmick writes that he is well, despite his loneliness, and he has just gotten over an illness. He also writes of an event where an Indian chief demanded that a dead Indian and his Indian murderer be turned over to them, and when both were given to his care, he and his people dug a grave, threw in both the murderer and his victim, and buried both together, the murderer being alive while they did so.

mssHM 4197

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Kimball Hale Dimmick letter to Sarah Dimmick

Manuscripts

Kimball Hale writes to his wife of the port of Rio de Janeiro, and asks how the children are doing. His ship will leave for California in about ten days.

mssHM 4011

Returns of camp and garrison equipage

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