Fort Cummings post records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0131
Scope and Contents
The collection has six rolls of microfilm which contains correspondence between commands in the U.S. Army. There is an abstract of monthly post returns from October 1863- September 1886 written by John P. Wilson in June 1970 for the Museum of New Mexico is Santa Fe. The map included with the collection is a copy which was copied in different smaller-sized sections.
Dates
- 1863-1884
Biographical / Historical
Named for Major Joseph Cummings, Fort Cummings in Luna County, New Mexico, was designed by General George B. McClellan with the high wall of adobe entirely enclosing the barracks and the headquarters. Built in 1863 near a stagecoach station for the Butterfield Overland Mail, the fort’s original purpose was to protect mail carriers, emigrant trains and freighters from local Apaches. It was permanently closed in 1891.
Source: Pearce, T. M. New Mexico Place Names. 1965. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press.
Source: Pearce, T. M. New Mexico Place Names. 1965. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press.
Extent
6 Reels (4th floor microfilm cabinets; map in map cases)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains letters to and from former army outpost Fort Cummings, New Mexico between 1866-1899.
Processing Information
Updated by Cassie McClure, 2006.
- Title
- Guide to the Fort Cummings post records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Cassie McClure
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository