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NOTES

1. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, as quoted in Russell F. Weigley, History of the U. S. Army (New York, 1967), p. 252.

2. Grant to Sherman, March 14, 1866, Department of Missouri, Letters Received, Box No. 20, R. G. 393, Army Military Commands, National Archives (hereafter cited as Dept. of No., Letters Received).

3. "Report of Maj. Gen. John Pope, of the condition and necessities of the Department of Missouri," February 25, 1866, House Ex. Doc. 39th Cong. 1st sess. No. 76, pp. 2-11.

4. Robert G. Athearn, William T. Sherman and the Settlement of the West, (Norman, 1956), pp. 27 and 33.

5. House Ex. Doc. 39th Cong. 2nd sess. No. 1, p. 21.

6. Annual Report, Secretary of War (Washington, 1867), p. 49.

7. Ibid.

8. "Protection Across the Continent," House Ex. Doc. 39th Cong. 2nd sess. No. 23, p. 15.

9. Sherman to Adjutant General, March 13, 1867, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 28.

10. Annual Report, Secretary of War (Washington, 1867), p. 38.

11. Sherman to Adjutant General, March 13, 1867, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 28.

12. "Protection Across the Continent," p. 22.

13. Ibid.

14. Sherman to Grant, June 22, 1866, Division of the Mississippi, Letters Sent, Vol. 4, p. 405, R. G. 393, Army Military Commands, National Archives (hereafter cited as Div. of Miss., Letters Sent).

15. Sherman to Pope, June 26, 1866, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 22.

16. Sherman to Grant, June 22, 1866, op. cit.

17. Meigs to Adjutant General, January 12, 1866, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 22.

18. Sherman to Meigs, July 3, 1866, Division of Miss., Letters Sent, Vol. 4, p. 427.

19. Meigs to Sherman, July 9, 1866, Office of the Quartermaster General, Letters Sent, Vol. 92, p. 366, R. G. 92, Records of the Quartermaster General, National Archives (hereafter cited as QMG, Letters Sent).

20. QMG, Letters Sent, July 3, 1866, Vol. 92, p. 386.

21. Meigs to Baston, July 11, 1866, QMG, Letters Sent, Vol. 94, p. 337 (as contained in letter of Dec. 4, 1866).

22. Ibid.

23. Meigs to Donaldson, December 11, 1866, QMG, Letters Sent, Vol. 94, p. 337.

24. Donaldson to Meigs, March 18, 1867, Quartermaster Consolidated Correspondence File, Box No. 838, R. G. 92, Records of the Quartermaster General, National Archives (hereafter cited as Q. M. C. C. F.).

25. Baston to Brig. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, March 18, 1867, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 28.

26. "Posts," Q.M.C.C.F., Box No. 838.

27. Dwight E. Stinson, "Historic Structures Report, Fort Larned, Kansas," July 1966, Typed ms, Office of Archeology & Historic Preservation, p. 5.

28. Ibid. p. 5.

29. Ibid., p. 7.

30. Ibid., p. 7.

31. Ibid., p. 8.

32. "Report of a Board of Officers," April 9, 1867, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box, No. 24.

33. Hancock to Sherman, May 1, 1867, Fort Larned Reservation File, R. G. 94, Records of the Adjutant General, National Archives.

34. Stinson, p. 14.

35. "Report of trains passing through the District of the Upper Arkansas in August 1867," Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 32.

36. Pope to Division of the Missouri, December 21, 1878, Fort Larned, Abandoned Military Reservation File, R. G. 49, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, National Archives (hereafter cited as Abandoned Military Reservation File).

37. Sheridan to Adjutant General, February 1, 1879, Abandoned Military Reservation File.

38. Abandoned Military Reservation File.

39. Stinson, p. 4.

40. (missing from the printed edition)

41. Regulations of the United States Army (Washington, 1867).

42. Baston to Division of the Missouri, March 6, 1867, Q. M. C. C. F., Box No. 838.

43. L. D. Burch, Kansas As It Is (Chicago, 1878), pp. 25-26.

44. Ibid., p. 135.

45. Hancock to Sherman, May ?, 1867, Dept. of Mo., Letters Sent.

46. "Report showing the average number of mechanics, laborers, and etc. employed, money expended, work performed, and material used in the erection of buildings at Fort Larned, Kansas, during the seven months commencing July 1, 1867, and ending January 31, 1867," Q.M.C.C.F. Box No. 533 (hereafter cited as Rockwell Report).

47. Marcy to Assistant Adjutant General, Division of the Missouri, October 3, 1867, Division of the Missouri, Letters Received.

48. Regulations of the United States Army (Washington, 1868).

49. Rockwell Report.

50. "Medical History of Fort Larned," Vol. 164, p. 10, Medical Histories of Military Posts of the United States Army, R. G. 94, Records of the Adjutant General, National Archives (hereafter cited as "Medical History").

51. "Report of an Inspection," April 30, 1868, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 86.

52. Stinson, p. 66.

53. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 85.

54. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 11.

55. Post Surgeon to Post Adjutant, September 2, 1870, Fort Larned, Letters Received, R. G. 393, Army Military Commands, National Archives (hereafter cited as Fort Larned, Letters Received).

56. Bvt. Maj. William P. Martin to Col. Michael R. Morgan, Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Dept. of Mo., October 3, 1866, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box. No. 20.

57. Ibid.

58. E. W. Wynkoop to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, November 26, 1866, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 27.

59. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 11.

60. Ludington to Easton, October 18, 1867, Q.M.C.C.F. Box No. 533.

61. Stinson, p. 76.

62. "Report of An Inspection," April 30, 1868, Dept. of Mo., Letters Received, Box No. 86.

63. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 10.

64. "A Report on Barracks and Hospitals with Description of Military Posts," Surgeon General's Office, Circular No. 4, 1870, Ft. Larned.

65. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 10.

66. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 11.

67. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 11.

68. Officer of the Day to Post Adjutant, February 27, 1870, Fort Larned, Letters Received, Box No. 1.

69. "Medical History," Vol. 164, p. 11.

70. Officer of the Day to Post Adjutant, February 27, 1870, op. cit. 97.

71. For a complete discussion of military justice, see Don Rickey, Jr., Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (Norman, 1963).



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