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Collection Reference Number GLC02831.39
From Archive Folder Collection of William H. Alden, F Company, 6th Regiment, Iowa Cavalry 
Title William Alden to his mother from Fort Rice
Date 13 July 1864
Author Alden, William H. (fl. 1844-1865)  
Recipient Alden, Charlotte  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description They are now at Fort Rice and may stay there 10 days. He was not surprised to hear of Louisa's death.
Subjects Soldier's Letter  American Indian History  Military History  Transportation  Military Supplies  Military Rations  Death  Women's History  
People Alden, William H. (fl. 1844-1865)  
Place written Fort Rice
Theme The American Civil War; Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Women in American History
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information The collection comprises forty eight long letters written while on the Sully Expedition to put down the Sioux uprising, under the orders of Abraham Lincoln. Private Alden, a seventeen year old Iowan, wrote this first-hand account mostly to his family. He discusses hand to hand combat with Indians, rescuing immigrants on the overland trail, gold mining, the capture of a Sioux chief's feathered head dress, and the wounding and death of a soldier. The Sully Expedition, led by Alfred Sully (son of the famous painter Thomas Sully), was the largest military campaign against the Plains Indians up to this date, and marked an expansion of warfare with the Sioux. Includes 1 postwar photograph. Most letters written to his mother while on the Sully expedition against the Sioux.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Recipient Relationship Mother  
Civil War: Unit 6th Regiment Iowa Cavalry, F Company