The lined pages of this ledger contains the sutler log of the Agency Post at Fort Randall in the Dakota Territory from the years 1861-63, including items purchased by the 7^th Iowa Cavalry. Items purchased include cords of wood, candles, tobacco, clothing items such as buckskins and fancy moccasins, and food items such as sacks of potatoes, corn meal, butter, coffee, bushels of corn, milk, eggs, chickens and beef. Purchasers named include Napoleon Jack (an Indian scout), Capt. Hudson, Dr. Bell, Capt. Wolf, Major William P. Lyman, the hospital steward, Capt. B. Mahana. There is a list of the soldiers from Co. “B”, 7^th Iowa Cavalry.

Measures 6” x 7 ½” x ¼”. Cover is slightly warped, pages have yellowed with age. Binding is tight with no loose pages.

The 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the Indian Wars. They were mustered into Federal service at Davenport, Iowa for a three-year enlistment between April 27 to July 13, 1863. On September 19, 1863 it was deployed to Omaha en route to the west. In 1864, three companies of the regiments were part of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Pollock's 1st Brigade of Brigadier General Alfred Sully's District of Iowa. In this organization, these companies participated in the Northwestern Indian Expedition, fighting at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain and in the Battle of the Badlands. Units of the regiment were at Camp Rankin on the South Platte in January, 1865 when more than 1,000 plains Indians attacked the fort and stage station at Julesburg during the Sioux Wars following the Sand Creek Massacre. In the Battle of Julesburg, 14 men of the 7th were killed, including 4 non-commissioned officers. Company F of the regiment accompanied Colonel James H. Kidd's column of the Powder River Expedition in 1865 to the Powder and Tongue river valley's in Dakota Territory and Montana Territory. The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on June 22, 1866.

A total of 1420 men served in the 7th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 1 officer and 21 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 74 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 97 fatalities.  [SM]

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