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Col. Zachary Taylor Writes the Army Adjutant General in Washington About Affairs in the West, and His Dissatisfaction With the Quality of the Troops Being Sent to Him by Zachary Taylor

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Title: Col. Zachary Taylor Writes the Army Adjutant General in Washington About Affairs in the West, and His Dissatisfaction With the Quality of the Troops Being Sent to Him
Author: Zachary Taylor
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 24/11/1833. An interesting letter, showing the inside operations and difficulties involved in getting quality troops to the Western frontierFort Crawford stood guard over Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, from 1816 until 1856. In the spring of 1829, troops began to build a new Fort Crawford on an elevated plain located on the mainland, safe from the floods that had plagued the first fort. The new structure was built primarily with quarried limestone, and work progressed slowly. Colonel (and future president of the United States) Zachary Taylor took command of the construction in the summer of 1829, and commanded the fort from then until 1837. Jefferson Davis (later president of the Confederate States of America) was a lieutenant at Fort Crawford, and supervised work at a sawmill on the Yellow River that provided lumber for construction. Troops moved into the new barracks in December 1830. While at the fort, Davis met and fell in love with Taylor’s daughter, Sarah. They would marry in June 1835, making Zachary Taylor Jefferson Davis’s father-in-law. But tragedy awaited, as Sarah died three months into the marriage of yellow fever, devastating Davis and causing ill will with Taylor, who blamed Davis for taking his daughter into an unhealthy climate.Soldiers at Fort Crawford served in many capacities after moving into the second fort. Most notably, troops took an active military role in forcing Native Americans west of the Mississippi River in accordance with the policies of President Andrew Jackson. Troops commanded by Col. Zachary Taylor fought in the Black Hawk War in 1832. On August 27 of that year, Black Hawk surrendered at Prairie du Chien and was jailed at the fort. In 1833, Lt. Jefferson Davis escorted Black Hawk to another prison at St. Louis, which journey also ended Davis’s time at Fort Crawford. The troops at Fort Crawford also worked to build a military road across Wisconsin to connect Fort Crawford with Fort Winnebago in Portage and Fort Howard in Green Bay. Additionally, soldiers from Fort Crawford enforced the relocation of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians from Wisconsin to a reservation in Iowa in the 1830s. ""Indian Removal,"" as the government called it, disrupted lives across the region and was successful in transforming Prairie du Chien from the front lines of enforcing Indian policy to one well behind the lines, leaving Fort Crawford without much of its earlier significance. Soldiers only occupied the fort intermittently after 1849, and the last active troops withdrew from Fort Crawford on June 9, 1856.Fort Snelling was on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Finished in 1825, the fort established US sovereignty in the area, drove British traders away, gaining control of the lucrative fur trade, and established trade relationships with the Native Americans in the area. The fort continued to be a dominating presence for both the native population, settlers, and the US government for another 125 years. Dred Scott was taken to the Fort Snelling area as an enslaved man despite the laws that prohibit slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley.In March 1849 Zachary Taylor became President of the United States. March 1825 Roger Jones became Adjutant General of the U.S. Army. He served in that post until 1852. His son Catesby ap Roger Jones was the commander of the ironclad CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads on the second day of battle with the USS Monitor.Letter signed, Head Quarters 1st Infantry, Fort Crawford, Nov 24, 1833, to Col. Robert Jones, Adjutant General, in Washington. “On the 11th inst. the recruits for this place & 50 for Fort Snelling arrived here under the command of Capt. O. Ransom of the 2nd Infant & were all turned over to me. The former have been inspected agreeably to the provisions of general order No 21 of 1829. 8 rejected & the balance 52 in number attached to companies ""A"" ""B"" ""C"" ""D"" & “I”. The only objection from present appearances which can be made to those who have been attached to companies is a want of bone and muscle, some being rather slender & feeble & too large a portion for the number being barely above the height required by regulations for. You will observe by referring to the descriptive Roll out of 17 recruits who were put under march for this place from the General Depot there were only 10 of the number 5 feet 9 inches high & above it (the prescribed height for grenadiers out of which numbers one has been rejected & one deserted before they arrived leaving only 8. Consequently as the grenadiers company belonging to the regiment which is stationed here wanted 20 men to fill it & 16 to equalize it with the other companies. I had to attach 8 men to it who were under the required size which was the case when the last detachment which was No 2 by Capt. Hawkins in May last was distributed. I would therefore suggest that propriety of breaking up the Grenadier company as it appears to me that an attempt to keep it up is but a mere mockery under present circumstances or at any rate while the present superintendent & commanding officer of the principal Depot in the Eastern Department are continued on the recruiting service as I cannot divest myself of the opinion that so far as regards size, injustice has been done this command by the selection of an undue proportion of small men for it.“I make these remarks from a sense of duty alone & if upon examination of the description Rolls of detachments of recruits which have been sent to other regiments from the same depot within the last 12 months it shall appear that there was not furnished recruits of the prescribed height for Grenadiers sufficient to keep up one Company or to any post composed of 5 companies, a number adequate to this purpose then I am ready to acknowledge that I have done injustice to the officers referred to otherwise my opinion of them must remain unchanged. At the time Capt. Ransom arrived with the detachment of recruits the weather was unusually cold for the season & had been so for some time previously & to such a degree that it was not then deemed advisable to send the detachment for Fort Snelling to that post until next spring or until the ice made sufficiently strong in the Mississippi for them to proceed on it; but the weather a few days after became mild and then being a probability of its continuing so far some time I determined on putting 44 of the 50 (the others being on the sick Report) immediately under way by water in two Mackinaw Boats under the command of Lieut. Storer for this place of destination. The detachment left here on the 22 Inst. & will in all probability be able to proceed by water as far as Lake Pepin which is about two thirds of the distance when they will, should this progress be interrupted by ice secure their boats and continue on by land. Lt Storer has been furnished with a guide who in addition to his knowledge of the river is well acquainted with the route by land between and Fort Snelling & as the detachment before setting out was sufficiently clothed to protect them against the cold I make no doubt of their reaching this place of destination in safety.“Accompanying this you will receive all the papers appertaining to the recruits which have been attached to companies together with those relating to the men rejected the latter will be retained here until the General in chief shall decide upon their cases. The following is an extract of a communication addressed to you on the 4th of August last to which no answer has been received as a matter of course it is taken for granted that it miscarried. Upon referring to the orders from your office upon the subject of rejected recruits it appears that I am not authorized to discharge recruits of my command who may have been rejected by a board of Inspectors I have therefore retained Ravenaugh Forester & Williams (recruits of that description) at this post until the decision of the General in chief in regard to them be made known. One of the this numbers (Forrester) has since deserted.""On the verso, Jones and another War Department official have written long endorsements. ""Reports the arrival of a detachment of 110 recruits for his command and Fort Snelling under Capt. Ransom. These for the former. 8 have been rejected & 52 assigned.” He refers to their want of height and encloses reports to their papers. He has sent on detachment for Fort Snelling. Refers to a grenadier’s company and also to his letter 4 August as to 3 rejected recruits. Jones adds in a lengthy signed endorsement about the poor quality of recruits sent to him.An interesting letter, showing the inside operations and difficulties involved in getting quality troops to the Western frontier.

Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Free Speech and Writing by [BEATTIE, James.]

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Title: Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Free Speech and Writing
Author: [BEATTIE, James.]
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Description: Edinburgh: For William Creech, 1787. Book. 8vo, contemp. calf, rebacked, with new label. Pp. 121; half-title. Spine worn at tips, rear hinge cracked, a little browned, but quite a decent copy. With armorial bookplate of William Stirling. First published edition. Beattie's list originally appeared in 1779 in a small edition, not for sale, printed for the use of those who attended his lectures. A third edition was published in 1811. CBEL II, 640..

THE KHAKI by BAXTER, Glen

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Title: THE KHAKI
Author: BAXTER, Glen
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Description: (New York): Adventures in Poetry, (1973). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Minor soiling. Near Fine. Glen Baxter. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with text and drawings by Baxter. SIGNED on the title page by the author/artist. Apparently only about 200 copies were produced. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory after the store closed.

Ambush by White, Samuel Alexander

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Title: Ambush
Author: White, Samuel Alexander
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Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company / The Country Life Press, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Coleman, Ralph Pallen. First edition (same date on title and copyright pages). Includes scarce original jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed, jacket spine soiled, light 1 inch stain on fore edge margin of first four pages, a few tiny spots on top edge. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1920 Hard Cover. 244 pp. Jacket art and matching color frontispiece by American painter and illustrator Ralph Pallen Coleman. From the jacket: "It was in the days when the rival fur companies carried on bitter war and when the factor of a post had to be a strong man. Such a man was Paul Carlisle, whom the Hudson Bay Company thought good enough to take charge of their most important post. But to Paul's fight was added a new difficulty, the love of a rival company chief's daughter. What follows is the big story of a man's fight for his own honour and a woman's love.

A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea by Bell, Thomas

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Title: A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea
Author: Bell, Thomas
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Description: London: John van Voorst, 1853. First edition. DESCRIPTION OF CRUSTACEANS BY ZOOLOGIST WHO PRESIDED OVER THE PRESENTATION OF NATURAL SELECTION BY DARWIN AND WALLACE IN 1858. 14x23 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, contemporary ink signature of Henry K. Jordan top of half-title, i-lxv, 386 pp, 4 pp publisher's list. Dedicated to Professor Richard Owen, the Faithful and Unchanged Friend of Many Years, 174 superb wood engraved illustrations and vignettes of the seashore and the sea. Corners bumped, wear to cover edges, scattered light foxing, pencil notations to rear endpapers (presumably by Henry Jordan). Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS BELL (1792-1880) was an English zoologist and surgeon. He was a personal friend to Darwin, although hostile to his theories of man's evolution, and as President of the Linnean society chaired the meeting on 30 June 1858, when Darwin and Wallace presented their controversial papers on selection and the origin of species. He combined two careers, becoming Professor of Zoology at King's College London in 1836 and lecturing on anatomy at Guy's Hospital. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1844. As President of the Linnean Society he chaired the meeting on 1 July 1858 at which Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace first published their theories on natural selection in the joint presentation of papers On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection. He apparently disapproved, and in his annual presidential report presented in May 1859 wrote that "The year which has passed has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear".

THE FICTION OF RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA by Sucher, Laurie (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)

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Title: THE FICTION OF RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA
Author: Sucher, Laurie (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
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ISBN: 9780312023362
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Description: NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Jhabvala on the title page. Notes and Selected Bibliography. Spine ends lightly crimped; dustjacket with faint beginning toning on spine and front panel topedge. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Unusual as such.. Signed by Subject. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Pio Nonite: 1932 by [Yearbook] STUDZINSKI, Lambert (Ed.)

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Title: The Pio Nonite: 1932
Author: [Yearbook] STUDZINSKI, Lambert (Ed.)
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Description: [St. Francis, WI]: Pio Nono High School Senior Class, 1932. Edition not stated. Slim quarto (27.5cm); brown leatherette wrappers, stamped in gilt and blind; 126pp. Wrappers partially split along rear fore edge, with creases, bumps and chips along other extremities; gilt rubbed in spots. Bindings slightly shaken but intact; textblock yellowed, with trivial soiling and handling wear throughout. Overall Very Good. Pio Nono High School was founded in 1870 as part of a Catholic normal school (specializing in music education) and business college. However, by 1922 it had become a boarding/day high school for boys. This is the yearbook for the graduating class of 1932 and features all the classic yearbook staples: Student and staff photographs, highlights of the year, sports and activities, gags and gaffes, and ads from sponsors (mostly from the Milwaukee area).

Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Books in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin and in Marsh’s Library, Dublin with a few from Other Collections (with illustrations). by ABBOTT, T.K.

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Title: Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Books in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin and in Marsh’s Library, Dublin with a few from Other Collections (with illustrations).
Author: ABBOTT, T.K.
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Description: NY: Burt Franklin, (nd).. First printing of this edition.. vi + 225 pp w/indexes. Fine in full red cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.

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