Box 1

Scope and Contents Small leather-bound journal containing accounts kept by Whipple as Second Lieutenant at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, with entries beginning in May 1853. Includes a section entitled “Distances from Fort Union N.M.to Fort Leavenworth Kansas Territory”, with remarks on available water, wood and grass. Another extended section entitled “Raton Route to Santa Fe from Crossing of Arkansas” provides travel distances with remarks on available water, wood and game. Includes an extract...

Scope and Contents Sixty-eight pages of drafts of letters written by Whipple from Fort Fillmore and Fort Defiance, dated from December 1855 to January 1860. Addressees include various military authorities in New Mexico, Texas and Washington, D.C.; Auditor of the U.S. Treasury; merchants; judges; attorneys; friends and Indian Agent Silas Kendrick.

Scope and Contents Journal containing the “Monthly Summary Statement of Funds Received and Expended on Account of Army Subsistence” for Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, October 1856-February 1857. Four pages of additional accounts from 1857 include two pages of accounts with Mesilla traders Hoppin and Appel. Also includes a four-page hand drawn map of the area around Fort Defiance, entitled “Topographical notes of Navajo country taken during the Navajo War by 1st Lieut. Wm. D. Whipple 1st Scout”,...

Scope and Contents Small leather address book used as a journal, containing a sixty-two page account in pencil of an expedition up the Gila River in May 1857. Provides observations of the Native American presence in the area as well as of flora, fauna and landscape. Recounts encounters with sheep and a brief stop at Old Fort Webster. Includes a penciled sketch of the route of the expedition. Preliminary pages include jottings of compass bearings (mentioning Old Fort Webster, Mimbres,...

Scope and Contents Whipple’s leather-bound journal (inscribed in ink “Lieut. Whipple 3rd Infy”) from Fort Defiance, New Mexico. Includes entries regarding quartermaster, ordnance and subsistence stores and a tally of “mules sent out on scout”.

Scope and Contents Bound journal containing thirty-seven pages of drafts of letters from Whipple dating from September 20, 1860 to April 29, 1861. Most of the letters were written from Texas, from the military outposts of Fort Bliss, Fort Clark, Fort Duncan and Indianola. The first two letters were from Albuquerque. Also includes a loose two-page draft of a letter from Whipple to Col. C. A Waite, April 29, 1861. This letter and at least one other refer to the steamship “Star of the West”,...

Scope and Contents Leather-bound letterpress book containing Civil War communications of Whipple, 1863-1864. A number of communications convey military orders from the Headquarters of the Department of the Cumberland, including orders related to the battle of Missionary Ridge. One letter suspends the death sentence imposed upon a soldier.

Scope and Contents Small leather pouch with de-bossed inscription “W.D. Whipple, Maj Genl U.S.A”. Contains calling cards of William D Whipple and Caroline Cooke. Other calling cards are for Thomas E. Evans, Richard H. Pease, D.W. Gilmour and C.F. Villiers-Chapman, whose card includes on the reverse a handwritten address in Rangoon. Also includes two train schedules, one for the “Pennsylvania Lines to the East and South from Chicago”, February 1896, and one for the Pennsylvania Railroad trains...

Scope and Contents Sixth-plate encased ambrotype of William D. Whipple in uniform.

Scope and Contents Ninth-plate encased ambrotype of Caroline (Cooke) Whipple, William’s wife.

Scope and Contents Includes five items: an undated nine-page draft of a letter from Whipple to the President requesting appointment as Adjutant General of the Army, providing a detailed overview of Whipple’s military career; a letter from Secretary of War Edwin Stanton appointing Whipple to Brevet Brigadier General, dated May 13, 1865; a telegraph dated June 26, 1863 to Whipple from General Robert C. Schenck, approving Whipple’s remaining as Chief of Staff to General Dana; one cabinet card...