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Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest FORT UNION Historic Resource Study Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest: A Historic Resource Study Fort Union National Monument Fort Union, New Mexico Leo E. Oliva 1993 Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers No. 41 Divsion of History National Park Service Santa Fe, New Mexico TABLE OF CONTENTS foun/hrs/index.htm Last Updated: 09-Jul-2005 http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/index.htm [9/29/2008 1:57:53 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) FORT UNION Historic Resource Study TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover List of Tables List of Maps List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Footnotes Chapter 1: Before Fort Union Chapter 2: The First Fort Union Chapter 3: Military Operations before the Civil War Chapter 4: Life at the First Fort Union Chapter 5: Fort Union and the Army in New Mexico during the Civil War Chapter 6: The Third Fort Union: Construction and Military Operations, Part One (to 1869) Chapter 7: The Third Fort Union: Construction and Military Operations, Part Two (1869-1891) Chapter 8: Life at the Third Fort Union Chapter 9: Military Supply & the Economy: Quartermaster, Commissary, and Ordnance Departments http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/hrst.htm (1 of 7) [9/29/2008 1:57:56 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) Chapter 10: Fitness and Discipline: Health Care and Military Justice Epilogue Appendix A: Commanding Officers of Fort Union Appendix B: Surgeons at Fort Union Appendix C: Chaplains at Fort Union Appendix D: Fort Union Post Sutlers and Traders Appendix E: Fort Union Monthly Aggregate Garrison Appendix F: Monthly Garrison Statistics, Fort Union Appendix G: Regiments Represented at Fort Union Appendix H: Desertions at Fort Union Appendix I: Samples of Daily Schedules at Fort Union Appendix J: Cavalry Horses at Fort Union Appendix K: Rules and Regulations at Fort Union, 1881 Appendix L: Fort Union Quartermaster Depot, 1868 Appendix M: Fort Union Clothing & Equipage Depot, 1868 Appendix N: Fort Union Commissary Depot, 1868 Appendix O: Fort Union Arsenal, 1880 Bibliography Index (omitted from the online edition) LIST OF TABLES http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/hrst.htm (2 of 7) [9/29/2008 1:57:56 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) 1: Temperature and Precipitation at Fort Union 2: Subsistence Stores Dropped from Inventory at Fort Union, 1852 3: Newspapers & Periodicals Received at Post Library, 1883 4: Wages Paid Civilian Employees, 1853 5: Wages Paid Civilian Employees, 1858 6: Corn Contracts at Fort Union, 1851-1859 7: Flour Contracts in Department of New Mexico, 1853-1859 8: Commissary Contracts in New Mexico, 1861 9: Civilian Employees, Fort Union Depot, 1867 10: Civilian Employees & Salaries, Fort Union Depot, 1881 11: Contract Payments to L. B. Maxwell, 1866-1867 12: Forage Agents in Fort Union District, 1875 13: Contracts at Fort Union Depot, 1875 14: Contracts at Fort Union, 1888 15: Fort Union Consolidated Sick Report, 1871-1874 LIST OF MAPS 1: Territory of New Mexico 1850-1861 2: Fort Union Region 3: Fort Union Area, 1866 4: Fort Union and road to farm at Ocate, 1853 5: Southwestern Defense System before the Civil War 6: Sketch of W. H. Jackson expedition, 1859 7: Confederate Invasion of New Mexico, 1862 8: Battle of Glorieta Pass, 1862 9: Southwestern Defense System after the Civil War 10: Indian Campaigns of Fort Union 11: Military Reservation at Fort Union, 1866 12: Post and timber reserves at Fort Union, 1868 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1: Wagon train fording the Arkansas River 2: "March of the Caravan" on the Santa Fe Trail 3: Stephen W. Kearny 4: Edwin Vose Sumner 5: John Pope 6: Plan of Fort Union, 1853 7: Officer's Quarters at first Fort Union 8: Building at first Fort Union 9: Sketch of first Fort Union by Captain Horace Eaton, 1856 http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/hrst.htm (3 of 7) [9/29/2008 1:57:56 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) 10: Sketch of first Fort Union by Joseph Heger, 1859 11: William Wing Loring 12: Charles F. Ruff 13: George B. Crittenden 14: Isaac and Katie Bowen 15: Dr. Thomas McParlin 16: Sketch of Bowens' Tent Quarters at Fort Union, 1851 17: E. R. S. Canby 18: William Chapman 19: Cuvier Grover 20: Henry Hopkins Sibley 21: Design of Fort Union Fieldwork 22: Second Fort Union Fieldwork 23: Structure at Fort Union Fieldwork 24: John P. Slough 25: John M. Chivington 26: William R. Scurry 27: Samuel D. Raymond 28: James H. Carleton 29: Kit Carson 30: James H. Carleton, Kit Carson, Daniel Rucker, E. H. Bergmann, Charles P. Cleaver, Nelson H. Davis, Herbert M. Enos, Basil K. Norris, and John C. McFerran, 1866 31: Construction scene at third Fort Union 32: Plan of third Fort Union, 1866 33: Plan to expand third Fort Union 34: Four views of company quarters under construction 35: Officers' quarters under construction 36: Officers' quarters under construction 37: Design of proposed chapel and school room 38: Officers' row under construction 39: Plan for company quarters at Fort Union 40: Officers' row under construction 41: Officers' row at third Fort Union 42: Plan of Fort Union, 1869 43: Elevation of a set of company quarters at Fort Union 44: Elevation of a set of officer's quarters at Fort Union 45: Elevation of a set of laundresses' quarters at Fort Union 46: Plan for a set of depot officer's quarters at Fort Union 47: Plan of machine shop and lumber yard at Fort Union Depot 48: Sketch showing area of transportation corral and buildings destroyed by fire on June 27, 1874 49: Edward Hatch 50: Nathan A. M. Dudley http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/hrst.htm (4 of 7) [9/29/2008 1:57:56 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) 51: Plan of Fort Union, 1877 52: Company B, Tenth Infantry, at Fort Union about 1887 53: Company C, Tenth Infantry, at Fort Union about 1887 54: Company F, Tenth Infantry, at Fort Union about 1887 55: Company H, Tenth Infantry, in fatigue uniforms 56: Company H, Tenth Infantry, in dress uniforms 57: Company I, Tenth Infantry, at Fort Union about 1887 58: Troop E, Sixth Cavalry, mounted, about 1887 59: Troop E, Sixth Cavalry, dismounted, about 1887 60: Troop E, Sixth Cavalry, in formation with swords drawn 61: Detachment of Troop G, Sixth Cavalry, field camp 62: Sixth Cavalry trooper and horse at Fort Union 63: View of Fort Union from bluffs to west, about 1885 64: Officers' quarters at Fort Union, 1876 65: Battalion parade in front of barracks at Fort Union 66: Guard mount on Fort Union parade ground, about 1880 67: Bridget Molloy Cloonan 68: Patrick Cloonan 69: Thomas Keeshan 70: Robina Keeshan 71: Keeshan family and quarters at Fort Union 72: Walter Keeshan 73: Thomas Keeshan's appointment as commissary sergeant, 1884 74: Lucy Margaret Keeshan 75: Walter Keeshan 76: Commissary Sergeant Thomas Keeshan's dress uniform jacket 77: Officer and woman on horseback on bluffs west of Fort Union 78: Philip Herrier 79: C. E. Borden 80: Twenty-Third Infantry band at Fort Union, 1883 81: Interior of quarters of Musician Joe Nevins and his wife, Fort Union 82: Fort Union Baseball Club, 1888 83: Niels J. C. Larsen, Sixth Cavalry, 1888 84: Sergeant Strupp, Sixth Cavalry, 1888 85: Trooper "Bismark," Sixth Cavalry, 1888 86: William Walton, Tenth Infantry, 1887 87: First Sergeant Huffman, Tenth Infantry, 1887 88: Richard and Marion Sloan Russell 89: Lydia Spencer Lane and children in front of commanding officer's quarters at Fort Union, 1867 90: Post Chaplain James LaTourette quarters at Fort Union, 1884 91: Interior view of LaTourette family quarters at Fort Union http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/hrst.htm (5 of 7) [9/29/2008 1:57:56 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) 92: Interior view of LaTourette family quarters at Fort Union 93: Genevieve LaTourette Collins in chaplain's quarters 94: Officers' row at Fort Union about 1887 95: Scene in front of officer's quarters at Fort Union about 1887 96: Interior view of Lt. Edward Plummer's quarters, 1885 97: Scene in front of post headquarters at Fort Union 98: Troopers of Company G, Sixth Cavalry, near bluffs 99: Eliza St. Clair Sloan Mahoney 100: Lucien B. Maxwell 101: Quarters and offices at Fort Union Depot, 1876 102: Depot quartermaster office, 1866 103: Interior street at Fort Union Depot 104: Fort Union Depot storehouses 105: Fort Union Depot storehouses 106: Fort Union Depot transportation corral 107: Fort Union Depot transportation corral 108: Fort Union Depot transportation corral 109: Fort Union Depot machine shop and lumber yard 110: Mechanic repair shops at Fort Union Depot 111: Mechanics' corral at Fort Union Depot 112: Mechanics' corral at Fort Union Depot, 1876 113: Chick, Browne & Co., Las Vegas, New Mexico 114: Post trader's store at Fort Union 115: Post trader's store at Fort Union 116: Fort Union post trader's token 117: William Rawle Shoemaker 118: W. R. Shoemaker's appointment as military storekeeper 119: W. R. Shoemaker's wallet 120: W. R. Shoemaker's private letter book 121: Fort Union Arsenal, about 1879 122: Company G, Sixth Cavalry, at old arsenal, 1888 123: Plan of hospital at Fort Union, 1878 124: Fort Union hospital, 1866 125: Fort Union hospital, 1866 126: Fort Union hospital, 1889 127: Henry Lippincott 128: Classroom at Fort Union hospital, 1889 129: Rear view of Fort Union hospital complex, 1889 130: Side view of medical facilities, 1889 131: Fort Union hospital, 1889 132: Officers' row at Fort Union 133: Fort Union buildings http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/foun/hrst.htm (6 of 7) [9/29/2008 1:57:56 PM] Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Table of Contents) 134: Remains of officers' row at Fort Union 135: Fort Union National Monument 136: Invitation to centennial observance of the abandonment of Fort Union, May 15, 1991 Dedicated to T.
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