Charles Dimon's memorandum books contain lists of steamship arrivals and departures

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 15, 2004 -- The maps detail winter routes between Fort Rice and Fort Sully and distances between other Dakota Territory forts. The map of Nebraska, Dakota Territory, and Montana marks the locations of United States military posts. Also included are ground and building plans for Fort Rice.

Dimon's memorandum books contain lists of steamship arrivals and departures, notations on mail delivery, and a handful of daily entries. The muster rolls list members of companies B, C, D, E, H, and K of the 1st United States Volunteer Infantry for 1864 and 1865. The forms indicate enlistment date, location of enlistment, years in service, and last day of pay.

General and special orders document the purpose and intent of the military presence in Dakota Territory. Orders from the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Department of Norfolk-Portsmouth, Department of the North West, and printed orders from the United States War Department are included. Internal regimental orders issued by Dimon also appear. Ordnance records are found in a variety of forms, including abstracts, inventories, invoices, quarterly returns, receipts, and requisitions. Together these records provide information on the ordering and shipping of supplies, supplies held in store, and procedures for distribution and return of supplies. The records include documentation from Norfolk, Virginia, and Fort Rice. Dimon maintained a journal and kept some cryptic notes on a raid he led outside Norfolk, Virginia. Also included in the series are quartermaster store records and miscellaneous receipts from Norfolk and Fort Rice.

Series III,Other Papers, is arranged alphabetically by material type and spans the dates 1864-1907. Dimon's commission as brevet brigadier general and his official discharge are filed here. An unsigned essay, "Disloyal Preaching," chastises ministers who did not uphold constitutional principles. A copy of theJournal of the Military Service Institute, 1907, contains an obituary of Thomas Howard Ruger. Dimon's lecture, "Army life Among the Hostile Indians in Dakota Territory, 1864-1865," includes reminiscences of his Fort Rice command. A memorandum, prepared after Dimon's death, provides a detailed biography of Dimon's military and civilian careers. Also present are two works by Enoch G. Adams, "Wilderness [Expressions]," and an untitled poem.