CANYON DE CHELLY NAVAJO EXPEDITION KIT CARSON CIVIL WAR REPORT ARMY NEWS 1863 For Sale

In 1863 Colonel Kit Carson led an Expedition from New Mexico into the Navajo Nation A pair of Original Complete issues of the US Army & Navy Journal, Oct 16 & Nov 17, 1863, each w 16pp of Civil War news, battles, etc, and each with the Reports of Generals Alfred Sully and James H Carleton on the progress of the Navajo Expedition and the complete Reports of Colonel Kit Carson, 1st New Mexico Volunteers, at HQ Navajo Expedition, Fort Canby, NM, reporting his expedition to Canyon de Chelly and the Little Colorado, Also Captain Rafael Chacon, 1st New Mexico report on his pursuit of the Navajo, 6th Iowa Cavalry Colonel DS Wilson Whitestone Hill Cheyenne Indian Dakota battle Report. The brutal expedition against the Navajo ended in their surrender at Canyon de Chelly, part of their ancestral home in Northeastern Arizona, Still sacred ground to the Navajo People it is a part of the vast Navajo Nation reservation.Both issues also have reports on various Union Army battles and cavalry expeditions in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama , and Presidential Proclamations by Abraham Lincoln ordering the protection of all Union Army POWs from mistreatment or re-enslavement, regardless of color and also Lincoln's Proclamation announcing the Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Both issues are are complete, disbound w edge w acid free archival repair, at the spine, age darkening, but overall Good. The pair