Whipple, William D.

First Lieutenant Stephen C. Mills, the officer in charge of the Chiricahua Indian Prisoners at Fort Marion, Florida recommends sending Bonito, a student at the Carlisle Indian School and a member of the Apache Nation, to Fort Marion to discuss the benefits of sending their children to Carlisle or another Indian Training School.

Monthly report of Lieutenant Loomis L. Langdon on the prisoners under his charge at Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas. Langdon writes that the health of the prisoners is good and they are involved in various work projects including digging wells as well as scraping, painting, and piling shot and shell inside Fort Pickens.

Langdon further…

Loomis L. Langdon, Commander of the Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas, provides his monthly report of the Indian prisoners he is in charge of at the Fort. In his report he includes a request to have Jose or Go-so be enrolled at Carlisle.

Final report of the prisoners held at Fort Marion including an account of births, deaths, and transfers to the Carlisle Indian School, Fort Pickens, and Mount Vernon Barracks.

Acting Secretary of War, Brigadier General S. V. Benet informs the Department of the Interior that he has issued orders to the commanding officer in charge of Fort Barrancas to transfer custody of Katie to Richard Henry Pratt in order for her to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School.

War Department orders directing Geronimo and other prisoners be sent from Fort Barrancas, Florida to Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama in addition to sending certain youths to the Carlisle Indian School.