Report on Suitability of Carlisle Indian School as a Military School

These materials include correspondence and a report regarding the suitability of turning the Carlisle Indian School into a military school. At the request of John H. Stephens, Chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs, the Secretaries of War and the Interior arranged to have Carlisle inspected by a military commander. Brigadier General M.M. Macomb, Chief of the War College Division, inspected the campus and its programs, and recommended that the plans be disapproved.