M222 UNITED STATES ARMY QUARTERMASTER CORPS: An Inventory of Its Consolidated Correspondence File Relating to Fort Snelling at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Lydia Lucas. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

 Finding aid encoded by Lyda Morehouse, December 26, 2000.Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps. Consolidated correspondence file relating to Fort Snelling, 1819-1868. Largely correspondence and returns concerned with the purchase and distribution of stores for Fort Snelling, Minnesota, construction and repair of post facilities, and raising of crops and livestock. 2 microfilm reels. M222 SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

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.

 RELATED MATERIALS

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.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

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, 1787-1860. 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. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

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

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 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: 09-00321879

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION M222 1 Fort Snelling Consolidated Correspondence File: a. Box 1055, all items before 1870. 7.5 inches. b. Box 1056, all items before 1870. 3.5 inches. c. Box 1060, all items before 1870. 2 bundles (2 inches). M222 1 & 2? d. Box 1061, all items before 1870. 4.5 inches. M222 2 Colonel Josiah Snelling Consolidated Correspondence File, ca. 1822-1833. 32 pages. M222 ?? Volume: "Military Posts and Stations" Reports of Employees, 1834-1860, pages 60-61 regarding Fort Snelling. 2 pages. M222 2 St. Louis Consolidated Correspondence File: Selected Fort Snelling Letters from Box 960, 1818-1826 (108 pages): Sept. 19, 1819, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 146. 4 pages. Aug. 21, 1819, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 138. 2 pages. Dec. 31, 1819, Clemson to Irvine. 3 pages. April 4, 1819, Clemson to Irvine. 2 pages. Feb. 4, 1820, Clemson to Irvine. 6 pages. Sept. 20, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 102. 2 pages. Oct. 3, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 105. 3 pages. Nov. 23, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 127. 3 pages. Nov. 30, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 128. 3 pages. Aug. 10, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 84. 2 pages. April 28, 1820, Clark to Jesup, no. 16. 3 pages. April 14, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 51. 2 pages. June 16, 1820, McGunigle to Jesup. 4 pages. Oct. 3, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 259. 3 pages. Oct. 17, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 205. 3 pages. Nov. 1, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 282. 3 pages. April 25, 1921, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 179. 2 pages. Sept. 30, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 258. 3 pages. Jan. 19, 1821, McKnight to Jesup. 2 pages. Jan. 11, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 143. 3 pages. Jan. 19, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 151. 4 pages. Jan. 26, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 152. 3 pages. Jan. 29, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 159. 4 pages. April 6, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 176. 3 pages. June 4, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 200. 3 pages. July 23, 1821, McGunigle to Jesup, no. 230. 3 pages. May 16, 1823, Snelling to [Jesup?], no. 476. 1 page. Aug. 31, 1825, Brant to Jesup, no. 9, enclosing Morgan to Brant. 5 pages. June 8, 1826, Brant to Jesup, no. 336, and enclosures. 3 pages, 5 pages. March 1, 1826, Brant to Jesup, no. 195. 4 pages. May 22, 1826, Brant to Jesup, no. 316. 3 pages. Sept. 3, 1826, Brant to Jesup, no. 460. 3 pages. Oct. 1826, Brant to Jesup, report of quartermaster and clothing stores on hand, no. 504. 5 pages.