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Alexander Brydie Dyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AC 070-P
Scope and Content Collection consists of material related to Dyer's involvement in the Taos Revolt.
Dates: 1846-1848

Battle of Brazito Report

 Collection
Identifier: AC 180-P
Scope and Content Collection consists of a typescript and a translation of the report by Mexican commander Antonio Ponce de Leon on the Battle of Brazito during the Mexican War.
Dates: 1847

Lachlan Allan MacLean Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: AC 423
Scope and Content The collection consists of eleven pen-and-ink drawings depicting military life as seen through the eyes of volunteer soldier Lachlan Allan MacLean. These drawings are unique in that they are a visual narrative of one of the notable and colorful facets of the Mexican War (1846-1848). The drawings include an informal portrait of Private John W.H. Patton after battle; the head of a black tailed deer; a wayside grave with a cross; a carreta (cart); Mexicans carrying water in a large wooden bucket;...
Dates: 1846-1847

Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC 039
Scope and Content The Manuel Antonio Chaves papers contain correspondence and transcriptions concerning Manuel Antonio Chaves' ancestry and military career. Much of the correspondence is written by his son, Amado Chaves. Marc Simmons assembled the addenda to the Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection. The file contains copies of documentation of Manuel Antonio Chaves' military career between 1861 and 1863.

Most of the papers in this collection are xerox copies.
Dates: 1861-1970

Mexican Government Documents

 Collection
Identifier: AC 317
Scope and Content Collection consists of handwritten and printed documents: a passport to Santa Fe from St. Louis, Missouri, dated 1836, and a proclamation by Jesus Gonzales Ortega, Governor of Zacatecas, concerning the Mexican revolution, dated 1859. Also included is a document from 1827, written to protest the proposal that the Mexican seat of government be moved from Sinaloa province to Sonora. In addition, the collection contains various Mexican decrees dating from the 1830's. All documents are in...
Dates: 1825-1859

Robert W. Frazer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC 399
Scope and Content The collection consists of personal papers (financial, family letters, retirement papers, health papers) and research material used by Robert Frazer for his publications, including transcribed copies of letters received by the U.S. Army Dept. in New Mexico (1850s - 1860s) and information on military history and forts in New Mexico and its economic impact.
Dates: 1911-2003