Collection Information
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
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by
Ellen Swain
22 June 1992
Updated 14 May 2004
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder
COLLECTION DATES: 1864-1889
PROVENANCE: Conway Barker, La Marque, Texas (65.0801); Walter R. Benjamin, New York City, New York (48.1101)
RESTRICTIONS: None
COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMAT: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: See card catalogue under: United States History - Civil War, 1861-1865 and Indiana History - Civil War, 1861-1865
ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.0801; 48.1101
Henry Beebee Carrington was born in Walingford, Connecticut on March 2, 1824. Educated at Yale, Carrington made his career in the military. On May 14, 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the Eighteenth United States Infantry and on November 29, 1862, Brigadier General. Carrington's duties during the War included organizing and sending 120,000 Indiana volunteers to the front.
After the War, as an officer in the Army of the Cumberland, Carrington opened a wagon route to Montana through Wyoming. There, he built Fort Phil Kearney and fought off attacks by area Sioux. In 1889, he was instrumental in the signing of a treaty with the Flathead Indians of Montana. Carrington was also a scholar as he taught military history at Wabash College for a number of years. In 1890, he took a detailed census of the Six Nations (New York) and the Cherokees and in 1899, he wrote the book Washington the Soldier. Carrington made his home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts where he died on October 26, 1912.
Source:
Who Was Who in America vol. 1 1897-1942. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1943.
The collection consists of two letters written by Carrington. The first, dated 7 April 1864, notifies Colonel J. N. Stiles, commander of the Sixty Third regiment of Indiana volunteers, that Lieutenant Flowers has been added to Carrington's staff. The second letter, written 10 April 1889, is addressed to General Henry M. Cist, to thank and pay him for some books.
FOLDER CONTENTS
1 Two Letters, 1864-1889
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