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Title: Letters Sent (Assistant Provost Marshal for Missouri)
Description: This notebook contains copies of correspondence sent by Col. E.B. Alexander, Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General for Missouri, in St. Louis, Missouri, during 1864 and 1865. The correspondence contains information regarding military enrollment, enlistments, and quotas, broken down by district.
Date: 1864-1865

Title: Letters Relating to Enlistment in Missouri
Description: This is a bound volume of letters written by Col. E.B. Alexander, Chief Mustering Officer of the 10th United States Infantry. The letters, dated August 23 - October 10, 1864, relate to enrollments, quotas, and enlistments of troops in Missouri.
Date: August 23, 1864 - October 10, 1864

Title: From Howard Combs to A. Miller
Description: This dispatch, dated July 1, 1865, is from Howard Combs in Bethany, Missouri to A. Miller, Commander in Charge of the 7th district of Missouri. Combs references a prior letter from Miller and reports that a $20,000 bounty was ordered by the court of Harrison County. He adds that Jackson Cohill "has not been here for months," while John H. Phillips "was here Saturday last--but now left."
Date: July 1, 1865

Title: Kansas and Nebraska 1856
Description: This color map, entitled “Kansas and Nebraska 1856,” was printed by J.G. Wells in New York.
Object Type: Map
Date: 1856

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865