UNITED STATES ARMY QUARTERMASTER CORPS:

The microfilm contains selections from Record Group 92 in the National Archives: (a) Consolidated Correspondence File, Fort Snelling, ca. 1820-1868, selected from boxes 1055, 1056, 1060, and 1061; (b) Consolidated Correspondence File, Josiah Snelling, 1822-1833; (c) Consolidated Correspondence File, St. Louis, 1819-1826, selected from box 960.

The records consist largely of correspondence and returns concerned with purchase and distribution of quartermaster's and other stores for Fort Snelling. They provide information on procurement of food, forage, firewood, construction materials, tools, and other equipment; contracts with local suppliers; supplies and equipment on hand and requisitioned; the post commissary and its personnel; construction of facilities, and repairs and losses of buildings and equipment; transportation of supplies; disposition and use of horses and mules; raising of crops and livestock at the fort; Lawrence Taliaferro's claim to property on the Fort Snelling reservation (1850s); and sawmills at St. Anthony Falls (ca. 1837). During the 1850s and 1860s there is correspondence regarding the sale of reservation property to Franklin Steele, the evacuation of the fort (1857), and its use by the state of Minnesota during the Civil War.

Also present are several detailed descriptions of the fort and its buildings and strategic potential, reports on the state of repair of post facilities, a few sketches of buildings, and an occasional muster roll.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item or file here]. U.S. Army, Quartermaster Corps. Consolidated correspondence file relating to Fort Snelling. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 10,084

Originals: National Archives (Record Group 92, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General).

Processing Information:

The item list below, taken from the accession file, has not been explicitly correlated with the microfilm.

Catalog ID number: 990017364510104294

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Photocopies of most of these materials are available in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections as part of a separately cataloged consolidated group of Fort Snelling files: P333, boxes 1 and 2.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Places:

Fort Snelling (Minn.).

Saint Anthony Falls (Minn.).

Persons:

Brant, Joshua B.

Cross, Osborn, ca. 1803-1876.

Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 1822-1905.

Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875.

Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 1788-1860.

Leavenworth, Henry, 1783-1834.

Martin, J. G. (James Green), 1819-1878.

McClure, James, d. 1838.

Plympton, Joseph.

Sherman, Thomas W. (Thomas West), 1813-1879.

Snelling, Josiah, 1782-1828.

Taliaferro, Lawrence, 1794-1871.

Organizations:

United States. Army -- Supplies and stores.

Types of Documentation:

Microforms.

Muster rolls.

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