Fort Mann, Kansas
"1847 - 1848"
Footnotes - Source - Letters

  1. This was the year wagons were first used, prior to this pack animals carried the merchandise into Mexico.

  2. McKissock to Jesup -- 27 November 1848.
    Section of the letter reprinted in -- Garrard op. cit., pp. 331-2.

  3. Present day Ford County, Kansas. See Kansas Historical Quarterly. Vol. 23, page 131.

  4. Garrard: op. cit., p. 334.

  5. These invalids left for the States on 30 May with a train commanded by a Capt. Fowler. See: Garrard, Ibid., p. 351.

  6. This recruit was signed on 20 May and became known as Rasamus Cowhorn, his correct name was never known. See Garrard, ibid., pp. 337 and 346.

  7. The Incident occured on 28 May 1847. See: Fstergreen, op. cit., p 41.

  8. See: Lavender, op. cit., p 305.

  9. See: Estergreen, op. cit., p. 170.

  10. See: Missouri Republican, 19 July 1847.

  11. See: Webb. Adventrues in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-47, pp. 287-88.

  12. Letter: Thomas Fitzpatrick to T. H. Harvey, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Missouri Historical Society.

  13. McKissock to Jesup -- 31 August 1847.

  14. Gilpin to Jones -- 1 August 1848. 30 Congress 2nd session. Exec. Doc. No. 1.

  15. The Battalion was also recorded as: Battalion of Missouri Volunteers for the plains; Gilpin's Battalion Missouri Mounted Volunteers; Oregon Battalion; and Separate Battalion of Missouri Volunteers.

  16. Gilpin to Jones -- 1 August 1848.

  17. Routt to Liberty Tribune, 6 December 1847.

  18. Company C -- 20 officers and 84 men commanded by Capt. William Pelzer.
    Company D -- 17 officers and 63 men commanded by Capt. Paul Holzscheiter.
    Company E -- 17 officers and 69 men commanded by Capt. Napoleon Koscialowski.
    See: Connelley. Doniphan's Expedition, p. 149.

  19. Routt to Liberty Tribune, 6 December 1847.

  20. These figures are taken from Niles Register.

  21. Routt to Liberty Tribune, 6 December 1847.

  22. See: Kansas Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, page 5.

  23. Gilpin to Jones -- 1 August 1848.

  24. Colston to Quartermaster Generals Office, 30 June 1848.

  25. See: Kansas Historical Quarterly, Volume 15, pages 329 and 330.

  26. Named after Colonel A. Mackay, U.S. Quartermasters Dept.

Sources

George F. Willison -- Here They Dug The Gold; London 1952.

David Lavender -- Bent's Fort; London 1959.

Lewis H. Garrard -- Wah-To-Yah and The Taos Trail; Glendale, California 1938.

Stanley Vestal -- Old Santa Fe Trail; New York 1957.

William E. Connelley -- Doniphan's Expedition; Topeka 1907.

Frank Blockmar -- Kansas; Chicago 1912.

Robert W. Frazer -- Forts Of The West; Norman 1965.

James J. Webb -- Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade 1844-47; Glendale California 1931.

Frank Macnitt -- The Indian Traders; Norman 1962.

M. Morgan Estergreen -- Kit Carson; Norman 1962.

Kansas Historical Quarterly; -- Volumes, 1, XXIII, XXX.

Niles National Register--1 -- January 1848.

Topeka Capital -- 19 June 1927.

Missouri Republican -- 19 June 1847.

Letters

Lieutenant E. Colston to Washington, Dated Fort Mann 30 June 1848. N.A. -- Record Group 92.

Lieutenant Colonel C. Wharton to Washington. Dated Leavenworth, 18 November 1847. N.A. -- Record Group 94.

Lieutenant Colonel W. Gilpin to Garland. Dated Fort Mann 18 August 1848. N.A. -- Record Group 94.

Captain W. M. D. McKissack to Jesup. Dated Santa Fe 31 August 1847. N.A. -- Record Group 92.

H. L. Routt to Liberty Tribune. Dated Fort Mann 6 December 1847. Missouri Historical Society.

30th Congress 2nd session. House Executive Doc. No. 1. N.A. -- Record Group 94.
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Copyright by; R. A. White

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