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LETTERS OF COMMENDATION FROM PROMINENT MILITARY MEN.
FROM AS OFL COMMANDER.
[COPY.]
5th Avenue Hotel, New York, June 29, 1887.
HON. WM. F. CODY London, England.
DEAR CODY:-- In common with all your contrymen, I want to let you know that I am
not only gratified, but proud of your management and general behavior; so far as I can
make out you have been modest, graceful and dignified in all you have done to illustrate that
history of civilization on this Continent during the past century.
I am especially pleased with the graceful and pretty compliment paid you bu the
Princess of Wales, who rode in the Deadwood Coach while it was attacked by the Indians
and rescued by the cow-boys. Such things did not occur in our days, and may never again.
As near as I can estimate there were in 1865, about nine and a half million buffaloes
on the plains between the Missouti River and the Rocky Mountains; all are now gone--killed
for their meat, their skins and bones.
This seems like desecration, cruelty, and murder, yet they have been replaced by twice
as amny meat cattle. At that date there were about 165,000 Pawnees, Sioux, Cheyennes, Kiowas,
and Arapahoes, who depended on these buffaloes for thier yearly food. They, too, are gone,
and have been replaced by twice or thrice as many white men and women, who have made
the earth to blossom as the rose, and who can be counted, taxed, and governed by the laws
of nature and civilization. This hcange has been salutary, and will go on to the end. You
have caught one epoch of the world's history; have illustrated it in the very heart of the
modern world--London, and I want you to feel that on this side the water we appreciate it.
This drama must end; days, years and centuries follow fast, even the drama of civilization
must have an end.
All I aim to accomplish on this sheet of paper is to assure you that I fully recognize
your work and that the presence of the Queen, the beautiful Princess of Wales, the Prince
and British public, are marks of favor which reflect back on America sparks of light which
illuminate many a house and cabin in the land where once you guided we honestly and faithfully
in 1865-'6 from Fort Riley to Kearney in Kansas and Nebraska. Sincerely your friend.
W.T. SHERMAN.
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
To whom it may concern: WASHINGTON, August 10, 1886.
MR. WILLIAM F. CODY was employed as Chief of Scouts under Generals SHERIDAN,
CUSTER, CROOK, MILLS, CARR and others, in their campaigns against hostile Indians on our
frontier, and as such rendered very valuable and distinguished service.
S.W. Drum, Adj.Gen.
STATE OF NEBRASKA.
To all whom these presents shall come; GREETING:
Know Ye, that I, JOHN M. THAVER, Governor of the State of Nebraska, reposing spe-
cials trust and confidence in the integrity, patriotism an ability of the HON. WILLIAM F.
CODY, on behalf and n the name of the State, do hereby appoint and commission him as
Aide-de-Camp of my Staff, with the rank of Colonel, and do authorize and empower him to
discharge the duties of such office according to law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused to be affixed the
Great Seal of the State.
Done at Lincoln this 8th day of March, A. D., 1867.
JOHN M. THAYER.
By the Governor,
G.L. LAUR, Secretary of State.
The following letter received with a photograph of the hero of the "March to the
Sea, "Gen. W. T. Sherman:
NEW YORK, December 25, 1886,
To Cot.,WM F. CODY:-- With the best compliments of one who, in 1866, was guided by
him up the Republicans, the occupied by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes as their ancestral
hunting grounds, now transformed into farms and cattle-ranches, in better harmony with
modern civilization, and with his best wishes that he succeed in his honorable efforts to repr-
sent the scenes of that day to a generation then unborn. W. T. SHERMAN, General
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LETTERS OF COMMENDATION FROM PROMINENT MILITARY MEN.
FROM AS OFL COMMANDER.
[COPY.]
5th Avenue Hotel, New York, June 29, 1887.
HON. WM. F. CODY London, England.
DEAR CODY:-- In common with all your contrymen, I want to let you know that I am
not only gratified, but proud of your management and general behavior; so far as I can
make out you have been modest, graceful and dignified in all you have done to illustrate that
history of civilization on this Continent during the past century.
I am especially pleased with the graceful and pretty compliment paid you bu the
Princess of Wales, who rode in the Deadwood Coach while it was attacked by the Indians
and rescued by the cow-boys. Such things did not occur in our days, and may never again.
As near as I can estimate there were in 1865, about nine and a half million buffaloes
on the plains between the Missouti River and the Rocky Mountains; all are now gone--killed
for their meat, their skins and bones.
This seems like desecration, cruelty, and murder, yet they have been replaced by twice
as amny meat cattle. At that date there were about 165,000 Pawnees, Sioux, Cheyennes, Kiowas,
and Arapahoes, who depended on these buffaloes for thier yearly food. They, too, are gone,
and have been replaced by twice or thrice as many white men and women, who have made
the earth to blossom as the rose, and who can be counted, taxed, and governed by the laws
of nature and civilization. This hcange has been salutary, and will go on to the end. You
have caught one epoch of the world's history; have illustrated it in the very heart of the
modern world--London, and I want you to feel that on this side the water we appreciate it.
This drama must end; days, years and centuries follow fast, even the drama of civilization
must have an end.
All I aim to accomplish on this sheet of paper is to assure you that I fully recognize
your work and that the presence of the Queen, the beautiful Princess of Wales, the Prince
and British public, are marks of favor which reflect back on America sparks of light which
illuminate many a house and cabin in the land where once you guided we honestly and faithfully
in 1865-'6 from Fort Riley to Kearney in Kansas and Nebraska. Sincerely your friend.
W.T. SHERMAN.
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
To whom it may concern: WASHINGTON, August 10, 1886.
MR. WILLIAM F. CODY was employed as Chief of Scouts under Generals SHERIDAN,
CUSTER, CROOK, MILLS, CARR and others, in their campaigns against hostile Indians on our
frontier, and as such rendered very valuable and distinguished service.
S.W. Drum, Adj.Gen.
STATE OF NEBRASKA.
To all whom these presents shall come; GREETING:
Know Ye, that I, JOHN M. THAVER, Governor of the State of Nebraska, reposing spe-
cials trust and confidence in the integrity, patriotism an ability of the HON. WILLIAM F.
CODY, on behalf and n the name of the State, do hereby appoint and commission him as
Aide-de-Camp of my Staff, with the rank of Colonel, and do authorize and empower him to
discharge the duties of such office according to law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused to be affixed the
Great Seal of the State.
Done at Lincoln this 8th day of March, A. D., 1867.
JOHN M. THAYER.
By the Governor,
G.L. LAUR, Secretary of State.
The following letter received with a photograph of the hero of the "March to the
Sea, "Gen. W. T. Sherman:
NEW YORK, December 25, 1886,
To Cot.,WM F. CODY:-- With the best compliments of one who, in 1866, was guided by
him up the Republicans, the occupied by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes as their ancestral
hunting grounds, now transformed into farms and cattle-ranches, in better harmony with
modern civilization, and with his best wishes that he succeed in his honorable efforts to repr-
sent the scenes of that day to a generation then unborn. W. T. SHERMAN, General
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