Description
The collection contains 32 items by or
related to United States army office Kinzie Bates (died 1884), including his 1877 diary
written during his field assignments to various Dakota Territory camps near the Black Hills
during army campaigns against the Sioux and their search for Sitting Bull and Lame
Deer.
Background
United States Army Officer Kinzie Bates joined the 1st Michigan Infantry as a private in
1861 and saw battle during the United States Civil War at Corinth and Vicksburg,
Mississippi. After the war he was promoted to Captain and stationed at Jackson Barracks in
New Orleans, Louisiana. He was transferred to the frontier in 1869 and married Elizabeth
Chumley Bates in 1873. Bates participated in the final months of Colonel Nelson A. Miles'
"Yellowstone Campaign" as a battalion commander in the US 1st Infantry. Bates died in
1884.
Extent
3 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
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