Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln.
Feb 5 ^1863^
I went to the office & took the Moquis Indians to Brother
Savages Picture gallery & got their likenesses taken which
they were Much Pleased with we also raised a subscription
to get them some Hoes & Axes. G A S gave $5 WW $5 A. O. S
$3. They were taken to the Paper Mill, &c I received a
Letter from I F. Carter. The Funeral of all the soldiers
who were brought in dead from the Indian Battle
Field were buried at Camp Douglass this Afternoon under
catholic crosses 16 were buried, 49 were wounded in the
Hospital, & 74 badly frozen
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