FORT LARNED Commanding Officer's Quarters (HS-8) Historic Structure Report Historic Furnishing Study

1. For an account of the structural changes see the first part of this document, "Historic Structure Report."

2. T.B. Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana (Chicago: John Morris, 1884), p. 252; Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1896), pp. 169-70; Will Cumback and J.B. Maynard, ed., Men of Progress, Indiana (Indianapolis: Sentinel Co., 1899), pp. 345-47; Appointments, Commissions, and Promotions file, Meredith Helm Kidd, K134 CB1870, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917, RG 94, National Archives, Washington, D.C. (hereafter cited as ACP file, Kidd).

3. Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, pp. 252-53; Cumback and Maynard, Men of Progress, Indiana, p. 347; Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana, p. 170; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Noble Township, Wabash County, Indiana, Records of the Bureau of the Census, RG 29, NA.

4. Ibid.

5. Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, pp. 252-53; ACP file, Kidd, RG 4, NA; Raymond Leo Welty, "The Western Army Frontier, 1860-1870" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1924), p. 170.

6. Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, p. 253; ACP file, Kidd; RG 94, NA.

7. "Statement of the Military Service of Meredith Helm Kidd," Adjutant General's Office, Sept. 6, 1893, ACP file, Kidd, RG 94, NA.

8. "Allegations against Major M.H. Kidd, 10th Cavalry," by Col. B.H. Grierson, 10th Cavalry, ACP file, Kidd, RG 94, NA.

9. Proceedings of the Board convened under Section 11 of the Act approved July 15, 1870 to Examine and Report on Cases of Officers Reported Unfit for Service because of Bad Habits, ACP file, Kidd, RG 94, NA. (Hereafter referred to as Board Proceedings).

10. Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, p. 253; Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana, p. 170; Cumback and Maynard, Men of Progress, Indiana, p. 347; Wabash (Ind.) Plain Dealer, June 11, 1908.

11. Eighth Census, Wabash City, RG 29, NA; Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, p. 253; "First Colorado Nurse in the Philippines," Colorado Magazine, July 1949; Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana, p. 170; Cumback and Maynard, Men of Progress, Indiana, p. 347; Rocky Mountain News, May 21, 1927; Plain Dealer, May 24, 1927.

12. Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, p. 253; Wabash Plain Dealer, Mar. 7, 1911.

13. Tenth Census, Wabash City, RG 29, NA; Cumback and Maynard, Men of Progress, Indiana, p. 347; Wabash Plain Dealer, June 11, 1908; Rocky Mountain News, May 21, 1927.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.; Wabash Plain Dealer, June 23, 1913.

1. U.S. War Department, Surgeon General's Office, A Report on Barracks and Hospitals with Descriptions of Military Posts, Circular No. 4 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870), p. 299.

2. Board Proceedings, ACP file, Kidd, RG 94, NA.

3. Eighth Census, Wabash City and Noble Township, RG 29, NA; Helm, History of Wabash County, Indiana, p. 253; Cumback and Maynard, Men of Progress, Indiana, p. 345.

4. Capt. Nicholas Nolan, Fort Larned commander, to the acting assistant adjutant general, District of the Upper Arkansas, April 25, 1868, Fort Larned, Letters Received, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, RG 92, NA.

5. Betty Lawson Walters, Furniture Makers of Indiana 1793 to 1850 (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1972), p. 35.

6. Charles van Ravenswaay, The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1977), p. 309.

7. Ibid., p. 316; Walters, Furniture Makers of Indiana, p. 26.

8. Maj. Henry Douglass, the commander of Fort Dodge, which was also on the Santa Fe Trail, reported in March 1868 that an Indian chief, Sa Ian Ia, had entered his quarters in his absence "and drank a Bottle full of El Paso wine." Maj. Henry Douglass to Bvt. Grig. Gen. Chauncey McKeever, acting adjutant general, Department of the Missouri, Mar. 1, 1868, Fort Dodge, Kansas, Letters sent February 1866-February 1869. Records of the United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920, RG 393, NA. Wine comprised a major product of the El Paso area at this time.

9. Medical History of Fort Harker, Medical Histories of Military Posts of the United States Army, RG 94, NA, p. 25.

10. Margaret I. Carrington, AB-SA-RA-KA Land of Massacre: Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879), pp. 42-43.

11. Philippe Regis Denis de Trobriand, Military Life in Dakota: The Journal of Philippe Regis de Trobriant, translated and edited by Lucile M. Kane St. Paul: Alvord Memorial Commission, 1951), p. 54.

12. Luther P. Bradley to his wife Ione, April 17, 1869, Luther P. Bradley Papers, correspondence with his wife Sept. 16, 1868-May 1, 1869, U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

13. Albert Barnitz, at Fort Leavenworth, to Dearest (his wife Jennie), Nov. 25, 1867, Albert Barnitz Papers, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; copy also FLNHS files.

14. Albert Barnitz in camp near Fort Wallace, Kansas, to Jennie, Sept. 11, 1867; and Albert Barnitz Diary, Nov. 1, 1867, Albert Barnitz Papers.

15. Marion S. Russell, Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marion Russell along the Santa Fe Trail (Evanston, Ill.: The Branding Iron Press, 1954), p. 119.

16. U.S. War Department, A Report on Barracks and Hospitals, p. 303.

17. Frances M.A. Roe, Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1909), pp. 7-9.

18. Frances C. Carrington, My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1910), pp. 100-101.

19. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, "Historic Furnishing Study, Historical and Archeological Data, Fort Larned National Historic Site," by John Albright and Douglas D. Scott, (Denver Service Center, 1974), pp. 35-36.

20. Post Sutler's Journal, Fort Harker, Kansas, Nov. 14, 1867-Nov. 30, 1868, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan.

21. Ett at Fort Larned to brother, Jan. 4, 1878. FLNHS files.

22. When Alice Baldwin and her husband arrived at Fort Lyon, Colorado, in 1867, they were invited to dine with Captain and Mrs. Thompson. She found the dining room table covered with "a fine tablecloth with napkins." Alice B. Baldwin, Memoirs of the Late Frank D. Baldwin, Major General U.S.A. (Los Angeles: Wetzel Pub. Co., 1929), p. 147.

23. van Ravenswaay, Arts and Architecture, p. 321.

24. Larry Freeman, Ironstone China (Watkins Glen, N.Y.: Century House, 1954), pp. 5, 20.

25. USDI, NPS, "Historic Furnishing Study, Historical and Archeological Data, Fort Larned," by Albright and Scott, pp. 118-19.

26. Ibid., pp. 119, 473.

27. Ibid., p. 481.

28. Ibid., p. 119.

29. Cumback and Maynard, Men of Progress, Indiana, p. 348.

30. Interview of Dwight Smith by George Elmore, Dec. 10, 1977, FLNHS files.

31. The items listed as appropriate for the bureau top were purchased by officers from the post sutler at Fort Harker in the 1867-68 period. Post Sutler's Journal, Fort Harker, Kansas.

32. Officers at Fort Harker used Sozodent toothpowder and poncine soap; ibid.

33. Officers at Fort Harker purchased the following cloth: calico, yellow flannel, blue flannel, drill, silk, black muslin, white muslin, and velvet; ibid.

34. Roe, Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888, pp. 28-29, 35.

35. Scott uncovered tiddlywinks and a dominoe during his 1973 excavations. USDI, NPS, "Historic Furnishing Study, Historical and Archeological Data, Fort Larned," by Albright and Scott, p. 489.

36. U.S. War Department, A Report on Barracks and Hospitals, p. 299.

37. Ibid., p. 298.

38. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Fort Larned, Pawnee County, Kansas, RG 29, NA.