ARCHIVES RECORD film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Records & Corres.: 1805-1916 Cubic ft.: 2 No. of Items: 59 reels of 35mm microfilm SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE This collection consists of microfilm purchased from the National Archives. The collection documents early military history of Nebraska, as a territory and a state. For the most part, the records cover Indians from 1871-1896, and volunteer service in the Civil War. The records on microfilm are a part of RG94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, housed in the National Archives. The collection is divided into five series: 1) Letters Received by the Adjutant General's Office, 1871-1880; 2) Special Reports and Miscellaneous, 1805-1896; and 3) Returns Received from Regular Army Cavalry Units, 1868-1916; 4) Returns Received from Regular Army Infantry Units, 1876-1894; and 5) Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers;. Series One contains correspondence and reports received by the Adjutant General's office that are a part of M666 of the National Archives collections. Series Two contains special reports of expeditions and investigations by the Adjutant General's office, 1805-1896, including such subjects as the Zebulon Pike expedition, the civil war, the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the Powder River Expedition. Series Three, purchased in 1993, contains returns of the 3rd through the 12th cavalry units while they served in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa, and particularly Fort Robinson and vicinity. The records on microfilm are a part of RG94, Adjutant General, at the National Archives and microcopy M744. This microfilm was purchased for the use of and can be found at our Fort Robinson facility only. Patrons wishing to view this film should contact the curator, Tom Buecker, at Fort Robinson. film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Sheet i ADDED ENTRIES: ARAPAHO INDIANS--WARS BIG HORN RIVER (Wyo. and Mont.) BISON HUNTING BLACK HILLS (S.D. and Wyo.) BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION, 1874-1876 CHEYENNE INDIANS--WARS CRAZY HORSE (OGLALA SIOUX CHIEF), c.1842-1877 Crook, George1828-1890 CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, 1839-1876 DAKOTA INDIANS--WARS Fort Apache Indian Reservation (Ariz.) Fort D. A. Russell (Wyo.) Fort Laramie (Wyo.: Fort) Fort McPherson (Neb.) Fort Meade (S.D.) Fort Niobrara (Neb.) Fort Riley (Kan.) Fort Robinson (Neb.) Fort Sidney (Neb.) GRASSHOPPERS--NEBRASKA, 1874-1875 GRATTAN, JOHN L., 1830-1854 GRATTAN MASSACRE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA--GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA--WARS Meinhold, Capt. Charles, d.1877 Military Bases MOORE, CAPT. ALEXANDER Nebraska. Cavalry. 1st Battalion Nebraska. Cavalry. 1st Regiment Nebraska. Cavalry. 2nd Regiment NOYES, HENRY E. (HENRY ERASTUS), 1839-1919 Omaha Scouts Pawnee Scouts Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 PONCA INDIANS POWDER RIVER (Wyo. and Mont.) RED CLOUD (SIOUX CHIEF), 1822-1809 REYNOLDS, JOSEPH J. (JOSEPH JONES), 1822-1899 film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Sheet ii ADDED ENTRIES (cont): Red Cloud Indian Agency ROBINSON, LEVI H., d.1874 ROSEBUD CREEK (MONT.) Sheridan, Phil H. (Philip Henry), 1831-1888 Sherman, W. T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 SIOUAN INDIANS--GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Standing Bear (Ponca Chief), c.1829-1908 United States. Army. Cavalry. 1st Regiment. - 1897-1900 United States. Army. Cavalry. 3rd Regiment. - 1868-1884 United States. Army. Cavalry. 4th Regiment. - 1877-1883 United States. Army. Cavalry. 5th Regiment. - 1877-1885 United States. Army. Cavalry. 6th Regiment. - 1892-1898 United States. Army. Cavalry. 8th Regiment. - 1905-1911 United States. Army. Cavalry. 9th Regiment. - 1888-1896 United States. Army. Cavalry. 10th Regiment. - 1901-1909 United States. Army. Cavalry. 12th Regiment. - 1910-1916 United States. Army. Department of the Missouri United States. Army. Department of the Platte United States. Army. Indian Scouts UNITED STATES--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR--NEBRASKA WHETSTONE INDIAN AGENCY WINNEBAGO INDIANS WOUNDED KNEE (S.D.)--HISTORY WOUNDED KNEE CREEK, BATTLE OF, 1890 YELLOWSTONE RIVER film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Sheet 3 Series Four, purchased in 1997, contains returns of 4th, 8th and 9th Infantry Regiments. The records on microfilm are from microfilm publication M665 of the National Archives. Fort Robinson has all four rolls plus the returns from the 4th Infantry, 1886-1895. Series Five, purchased in 1995, contains service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the territory of Nebraska. Members of the Civil War Conservation Corps prepared the records for filming. Donations from Cliff and Mary Hillegass and Cliffs Notes, Inc. of Lincoln provided the funding needed to microfilm the records. The units represented in this microfilm include the First and Second Nebraska Cavalrys, and the First Battalion of the Nebraska Cavalry. Series Six contains the records of service and enlistments for Indian Scouts, including the Omaha & Pawnee indians. DESCRIPTION SERIES ONE LETTERS RECEIVED MAIN SERIES (M666), 1871-1880 Roll #1 Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1871-1872 File 113 Correspondence re provisions of food 1871 files and ammunition for hunting for nearly 111-276 3000 starving Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Sioux indians under Red Cloud at Ft. Laramie. Roll #2 Cheyenne & Arapahoe Indians, 1871 File 557 Report by Gen. John Pope, Commander, 1871 files Dept. of Missouri, of a possible war with 454-573 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in the spring of 1871. Relates to conditions at the Cheyenne & Arapahoe agencies and to the agents' defense of policies against charges of inefficient administration. film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Sheet 4 SERIES ONE LETTERS RECEIVED MAIN SERIES (M666), 1871-1880 Roll #3 Sioux Indians, 1871-1872 File 2019 Corres. re activities of the Sioux in 1871 files various locations including settlement on 1889-2019 Milk River, Mt and attack on Gallatin Valley, Montana by tribes from the Big Horn area. Includes information on Santee, Yankton, and other Sioux tribes. Roll #4 Military Posts, 1872 File 2564 Recommendations that post locations at 1871 files Cheyenne, Grant River, Lower Brule and 2469-2578 Whetstone agencies in Dakota Territory be moved and that the military station at the Whetstone agency be discontinued in Apr. 1872 Roll #5 ALEXIS, Grand Duke, Buffalo Hunt File 3810 Relates to buffalo hunt of Grand Duke 1871 files Alexis of Russia, November 1871 - Jan. 1872 3790-4014 Roll #6 Sioux Indians, 1872 File 1603 Corres. re attack on Minniconjou Sioux 1872 files war party by the 3rd Cavalry under Capt. 1583-1661 Charles Meinhold, near south fork of the Loup River, Nebraska, 1872. Roll #7 Red Cloud Agency, 1872 File 3699 Corres. re events at agency including Chief 1872 files Red Cloud's refusal to move to White River 3699-3794 and the capture of 450 indian ponies grazing illegally on south side of the Platte on the Ft. Laramie Military Reservation, 1872. Roll #8 Winnebago Indians, 1873-1874 File 4746 Corres. re removal of nearly 1,000 1873 files Winnebago from Wisconsin to Nebraska, 4746-4807 Dec. 1873 - Jan. 1874 film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Sheet 5 SERIES ONE LETTERS RECEIVED (cont) Roll #9 Sioux Indians, 1874 File 563 Corres. re increased Sioux activities 1874 files in the Dept. of the Platte, 1874, including 563 murder of Lt. Levi H. Robinson near Laramie Peak, Wyo. and to the request for a post to protect the Red Cloud and Whetstone agencies. Roll #10 Black Hills Expedition, 1874-1876 File 1741 Relates to Lt. Col. George A. Custer's 1874 files Black Hills Expedition including reports 1741 by the Chief Engineer on the physical characteristics of the region. Roll #11 Grasshopper Plague, 1874-1875 File 4391 Corres. re relief provisions for the people 1874 files of Nebraska after grasshopper plague and 4344-4467 drought of 1874-1875. Also included are reports on the most devastated areas. Roll #12 Indian/White Relations, 1874-1875 File 5009 Corres. relating to reports that miners 1874 files have been working in the Black Hills 4950-5020 country of the Sioux Indian Reservation. Roll #13 Cheyenne Indians, 1875 File 5650 Corres. re fight between Co. H, 5th 1875 files Cavalry and 60 warriors of the Northern 5531-5652 Cheyenne south of the Buffalo Station on the Kansas Pacific Railway, Oct. 28, 1875. Roll #14 Sioux Indians, 1875-1876 File 6160 Papers relating to military expedi- 1875 files tions against the Sioux in the Big Horn, 6160-6224 Powder River, and Yellowstone River areas, November 1875 - July 1876 film RG535 United States. Office of the Adjutant General Sheet 6 SERIES ONE LETTERS RECEIVED (cont) Roll #15 Indian Scouts, 1876-1878 File 1929 Corres. re total number of scouts 1876 files authorized to be employed by the Army 1888-1968 and requests for permission to enlist scouts in various departments. Roll #16 Crook vs. Reynolds and Moore File 2440 Papers re charges by Gen. George Crook 1876 files that Col. Joseph J. Reynolds and Capt. 2412-2461 Alexander Moore failed to carry out orders in an attack on the village of Chief Crazy Horse near Powder River, Montana, in March of 1876, and relating to the court martials of Reynolds and Moore. Roll #17 Battle of Rosebud Creek, Montana, 1876 File 3570 Corres. re Crook's battle with the 1876 files Sioux and Cheyenne Indians under Chief 2412-2461 Crazy Horse at Rosebud Creek, Mt, June 1876 Roll #18A Siouan Indians, 1874-1879 NARS (1955) Post Returns, New Red Cloud Agency, 1877-1879 #04,907 Post Returns, Red Cloud Agency December 1878 - January 1879 Special Return, Dec. 1878, Return of troops transferred from Red Cloud Agency to Camp Robinson Post Returns, 3rd Cav., Nov. 1878 - Jan. 1878 (in reverse order) Document File, 563-AGO-1874 Correspondence, reports, etc. relating to indian relations and problems in the Dept of the Platte, Feb. 1874 - January 1875. Includes correspondence to and from Red Cloud, Spotted Tail & Whetstone agencies, and to and from army officers and commanders.