Collection of letters containing instructions and reports from headquarters Department of Texas under the administration of Brigadier General Christopher C. Augur, 1872 to1875

Correspondence, telegrams, printed and ms. reports and orders, maps, letterbooks, and notebook, mainly documenting Augur's post Civil War military commands, but also highlighting his service in the Pacific Northwest and Civil War. Among subjects covered are railroad surveys of the West (1853), the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Union spies (B.B.C. Stone, Pardon Worsley), Sioux and Cheyenne campaigns, departmental administrative matters, troop morale a...