1858 Letter from the Fort Defiance Quartermaster’s Office Requesting Supplies of Corn for Fighting the Navajo.
Fort Defiance, New Mexico (now Arizona): October 1858. Single letter, two 8 x 10 inch pages. A letter from Captain William K. Van Bokkelen (1822–1907) at Fort Defiance to Major James Lowry Donaldson (1814–1885). Van Bokkelen, calculating the amount of bushels of corn consumed each day by the Fort’s horses.....