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MG 66
Charles J. Croft

(1862-1913)

Accn. # A-2001-54

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Scope and Content

This collection consists of personal correspondence, a memo of travel, and military records of Charles J. Croft, predominantly from his time as hospital steward of the 1st Cavalry, California Volunteers, at Fort Goodwin and Fort McDowell, Arizona Territory from about 1863-1866.

Procesing Note

This collection was deaccessioned from the Arizona Collection (AZ 92 C941). It was placed in Box 1 of the Small Collections boxes.

Inventory

Box:Folder	Description	Dates
SC1:1	Letter from Clayton L. Croft to R. M. Allen [his mother] describing a visit to Papeete, Otahiti, Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean	July 2, 1862
SC1:1	Letter from A. Kellogg, San Francisco, to Croft, concerning the botany of Arizona Territory, with envelope	March 7, 1863
SC1:1	Letter from R. M. Allen [his mother], Chicago, to Clayton Croft, concerning the Civil War and his possible enlistment	March 13, 1863
SC1:1	U.S. military records from Camp Union and Camp Drum, California: Permission for C. J. Croft to be absent from Camp Union, Sacramento, California, “for the purpose of attending theater,” signed Gen. M. Brown	January 1, 1864
SC1:1	U.S. military records from Camp Union and Camp Drum, California: Report of a missing Colt’s Revolver gun which had been stolen from the tent of Charles Croft at Camp Union	January 28, 1864
SC1:1	Pencil sketches of unknown scenes	n.d.
SC1:1	Letter from R. M. Allen [his mother], Chicago, to Clayton Croft, concerning a death in the family	June 26, 1864
SC1:1	U.S. military records from Fort McDowell, Arizona: Muster Roll of Post Hospital	December 1, 1865
SC1:1	Memorandum sketch of a tramp from Fort Goodwin to Fort McDowell, Nov. 13, 1865, with map	January 23, 1866
SC1:1	Watercolor painting of an unknown scene, includes a note stating, “From Mr. Croft”	n.d.
SC1:1	U.S. military records from Fort McDowell, Arizona: Special Orders No. 18, an order for C. J. Croft to “proceed to San Francisco[,] Cal. to be mustered out of the service”	February 20, 1866
SC1:1	Letter from Thomas Weldon Magile, Corporal, Camp Goodwin, A. T., to C. J. Croft regarding conditions at Camp Goodwin	May 24, 1867
SC1:1	Empty envelope from the U.S. Bureau of Pensions to Mrs. Mary Croft, Washington D.C.	May 26, 1913

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