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Title: Heber Mansfield Creel U.S. Military Academy Class of 1877 Photograph Album
Dates: 1877
Collection Number: 00289
Quantity: 1 album
Abstract: Images of the professors, instructors, cadets and campus of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. in 1877
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired the album from H. M. Creel.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
From the Devils Lake Daily Journal, Monday September 19, 1932
Born at Waverly, Missouri, Nov. 30, 1855, son of a Virginia family established in Va. 1620, graduated from West Point with class of 1877 as 2nd Lieutenant in 8th U.S. Cavalry and within the year promoted in rank to the famous Seventh Cavalry. He served five years at old Fort Abraham Lincoln, Custer’s Post, resigning in 1883. He was in command when the property of Ft. Rice, down the Missouri, was evacuated and property removed up the Missouri to Fort Yates on the Steamer “Dr. Burleigh” in 1878. Was in the expedition locating Ft. Meade, SoDak. In July 1882 he located the town of Devils Lake, at first named “Creel City”. Had been in the “Dull Knife” Indian campaign of 1878 with the Thornberg expedition 400 miles into the Sand Hills of Nebraska and Sitting Bull campaign of 81, accompanying the Sitting Bull band on their return to Ft. Yates. Was engineer officer of Fort Totten Dist. Was Colonel in No.Dak. National Guard in 1891, and Adjutant General of North Dakota in 1905. He was retired from the No.Dak. National Guard as Brigadier General, Jan. 7, 1907.
While in the 7th Cavalry he was detailed by Gen. Sherman to escort the Northern Cheyenne from the Black Hills to Ft. Reno, Indiana and later to Sidney Barracks, Nebraska.
He wrote grammar and Dict. Of the Cheyenne language and a work on the sign language of the North American Indians, published by Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C.
While in Indian Territory he married Miss Alice H. LaRue of Indiana, and daughter of Richard LaRue whose farm was at one time a part of the City of Richmond, Va.
Throughout his career he displayed his military training in the precision of carrying out plans, ever alert and prompt. He died Sat. 17 Sept. 1932 at his home in San Diego, Calif. Age 77 years.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00289-01 President U. S Grant
00289-02 W. M. Belknap, Secretary of War
00289-03 Major General Thomas H. Ruger, Superintendent U.S. Military Academy
00289-04 Major General J. M. Schofield
00289-05a Major General Upton, Commandant of U.S. Corps Cadets
00289-05b Major General G. H. Neill, Commandant Cadets
00289-06a Professor Kendricks, Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology
00289-06b George Armstrong Custer
00289-07a Albert E. Church, Professor of Mathematics
00289-07b Jernuis B. Wheeler, Professor Military/Civil Engineering, Strategy Ground Tactics, Science of War
00289-08a Patrice DeJanon, Professor of Spanish
00289-08b Professor Weir, Topography, Etching, Fine Arts
00289-09a John Forsythe, Professor of Ethics, Chaplain
00289-09b George Andrews, Professor of French
00289-10a Lieutenant Lamand, Assistant Professor of Drawing
00289-10b Peter S. Michie, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
00289-11a Colonel Mordacai, Chief of Ordnance
00289-11b Colonel Hall, 10th Cavalry Adjutant U.S. Military Academy
00289-12a Major Earnst, Professor of Practical Engineering, Signaling, Telegraphy
00289-12b Major Piper, Chief of Artillery
00289-13a Colonel Eugene Beaumont, Chief of Cavalry
00289-13b Lieutenant S. M. Mills, 5th Artillery, Treasurer
00289-14a Sergeant Morton, 5th Artillery, Tactical Officer
00289-14b Captain Charles W. Raymond, Asst Professor Natural/Experimental Philosophy
00289-15a Lieutenant Knight, U.S. Corps Engineers
00289-15b Otto L. Heine, 1st Cavalry Tactical Officer
00289-16a Lieutenant Barber, Assistant Professor French
00289-16b Lieutenant Johnson, 5th Artillery, Asst Professor Chemistry
00289-17a Lieutenant Davis, 1st Artillery, Tactical Officer
00289-17b Lieutenant Denison, Asst Professor Spanish
00289-18a Sedgewick Pratt, 5th Artillery, Asst Professor Drawing
00289-18b R. Thompson, 1st Infantry, Tactical Officer
00289-19a J. J. Stretch, 1st Lieutenant 11th Infantry, Senior Instructor in Tactics
00289-19b Captain Girard, Assistant Surgeon
00289-20a F. Schlichter, Chemical Instructor and Essayist
00289-20b David Lyle, Ordnance Officer
00289-21a Captain Rafferty, Chief of Cavalry
00289-21b Bentz, the Bugler since 1837
00289-22a Barnett
00289-22b Captain Catlin, Quartermaster
00289-23a Auger, Ammon A.
00289-23b Bonny,
00289-24a Bigelow, John Jr.
00289-24b Baldwin, William H.
00289-25a Baxter, George W.
00289-25b Black, William M.
00289-26a Bradley, Charles A.
00289-26b Baxter, John, Jr.
00289-27a Blair, Francis P.
00289-27b Brown, Oscar J.
00289-28a Chase, George N.
00289-28b Blocksom, Augustus P.
00289-29a W. C. Bornin
00289-29b Chynoweth, Edward
00289-30a Heber Mansfield Creel, West Point Cadet
00289-30b Butler, B. F. Jr. son of Major General Benjamin Butler
00289-31a Clark, Wallis O.
00289-31b Eggleston, Millard F.
00289-32a Fisk, Walter L.
00289-32b Crane, Charles J.
00289-33a Robert Emmett, grand nephew of Robert Emmett
00289-33b Foster, Fred W.
00289-34a Galbraith, Jacob G.
00289-34b Esterly, Calvin
00289-35a Frederick, Daniel A.
00289-35b Galbraith, William W.
00289-36a Goldman, Henry J.
00289-36b French, F. Halverson
00289-37a Gatewood, Charles B.
00289-37b Gordon,
00289-38a Hammond,
00289-38b Glenn, Edwin F.
00289-39a Guilfoyle
00289-39b Hegewald
00289-40a Hunter
00289-40b Hayden
00289-41a Kirby
00289-41b Loder, Samuel H.
00289-42a Maney, James A.
00289-43a Marsh, Frederick
00289-43b Martin, Medad C.
00289-44a Massey, Solon F.
00289-44b McCrimmon, Ariosto
00289-45a McDonald, David N.
00289-45b McMartin, John
00289-46a Mills, Stephen C.
00289-46b Murray, Cunliffe H.
00289-47a Paddock, James V. S.
00289-47b Parker, Theophilus
00289-48a Patch, Alexander M.
00289-48b Patten, Francis J.
00289-49a Patterson, Thomas C.
00289-49b Philbrick, John H.
00289-50a Plummer, Edward H.
00289-50b Price, David Jr.
00289-51a Read, Robert D. Jr.
00289-51b Roessler, Solomon W.
00289-52a Safford, Robert E.
00289-52b Shofner, James C.
00289-53a Slaker, Adam
00289-53b Springett, Howard A.
00289-54a Stevens, Robert R.
00289-54b Stevenson
00289-55a Thornington, Monroe P.
00289-55b Todd, Albert
00289-56a Wayman, Samuel P.
00289-56b White, John V.
00289-57a Wilcox
00289-57b Wilder, Wilbur E.
00289-58a Wilson, Richard H.
00289-58b Wood, William T.
00289-59a Woodward, Charles G.
00289-59b Winston
00289-61 US Military Academy Chapel
00289-62 US Military Academy Mess Hall
00289-63 US Military Academy Mess Hall interior
00289-64 US Military Academy Library interior
00289-65 US Military Academy "Execution Hollow" of the Revolutionary War and Parade
00289-66 US Military Academy Battery Knox
00289-67 US Military Academy South Gate Entrance
00289-68 US Military Academy Seacoast Battery
00289-69 US Military Academy Trophy Point
00289-70 US Military Academy Trophy Point
00289-71 View from Fort Putnam of the Revolution
00289-72 Ordnance Laboratory and Cadet Rendezvous
00289-73 US Military Academy Academic Buildings
00289-74 US Military Academy Cadet Barracks
00289-75 US Military Academy Flirtation Walk
00289-76 Commandant of Cadets and Tactical Officers in Camp
00289-77 South Dock
00289-78 Siege Battery and North View on the Hudson from West Point
00289-79 Mortar Battery
00289-80 Adjutant's Office
00289-81 Cemetery
00289-82 Kosinsco Garden and Flirtation Walk
00289-83 Riding Hall, Largest in the World
00289-84 Headquarters of George Washington during the Revolutionary War, scene of Benedict Arnold's betrayal
00289-85 US Military Academy Band
00289-86 Guard on Parade
00289-87 Light Artillery 'in battery'
00289-88 Cadet Monument
00289-89 Hospital
00289-90 Major General John Sedgwick's Monument
00289-91 Camp Washington
00289-92 Heber Mansfield Creel and Hayden Geret, West Point Cadets
00289-92 Troops in Formation
00289-94 US Corps Cadets on Dress Parade
00289-95 Camp of US Cadets on St. George's Hill at the Centennial
00289-96 Class of 1877 group portrait
00289-97a Romance on the Hudson
00289-97b Reality on the Plains
00289-98a Our pipes, books, tobacco, foils, musical instruments may they ever remain as tokens of the life we passed in the Scientific School of ?
00289-98b Flirtation Walk 'Goodbye'
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