Anyway, here's a puppy
catalog.archives.gov/id/205582892
us national archives stuff
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Interesting documents from the U.S. National Archives. Not an official account. I do not represent the National Archives. But I do take requests.
![midcentury poster showing a man seated with his head in his hand, and "THAT TIRED FEELING" across the front. "Rx REGULAR REST and SLEEP / GOOD FOOD [dot] RECREATION"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreiait2bcx5lcrte4qfxyo6bguxnhhki62v5mqwjzoomb3fz5ijcuvy)
![The Archivist's Code
The archivist has a moral obligation to society to preserve evidence on
how things actually happened and to take every measure for the physical preservation of valuable records. On the other hand, he has an obligation not to commit funds to the housing and care of records that have no significant or lasting value.
The archivist must realize that in selecting records for retention or disposal he acts as the agent of the future in determining its heritage from the past. Therefore, insofar as his intellectual attainments, experience, and judgment permit, he must be ever conscious of the future's needs, making his
decisions impartially without taint of ideological, political, or personal bias.
The archivist must be watchful in protecting the integrity of records in his custody. He must guard them against defacement, alteration, or theft, he must protect them against physical damage by fire or excessive
exposure to light, damp, and dryness; and he must take care to see that their evidentiary value is not impaired in the normal course of rehabilitation, arrangement, and use.
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![May 24, 1926
[ . . .]
Dear Sir:
I have a letter before me addressed to Pompey Facton, from the Bureau of Pensions of date April 22nd, last, advising that his claim for pension as survivor of the Indian Wars in rejected on the grounds that "No new elements has been brought into the case."
Factor-Facton a he is known by in the Army came to me some time in March, last, and requested that I file his application for pension, stating to me that he had never filed before and therefore, I knew nothing of his claim having been previously rejected.
This old gentleman is an illiterate and has no recollection of dates of any information that would assist in the prosecution of his claim, and has to depend on his friends who served in the Scouts with him to assist him with this information. Parties that know him state that he was in the service during the years 1874-75, and that he did fight Indians during that period. He has a medal of Honor that ws awarded him, he states, for saving the life of then Liet. Bullis his Commander from an attack of Indians at a place known as Painted Cave on Devils' River (Texas), and which he thinks happened in the year of 1875. He states that Lt. Bullis, John Ward, Isaac Payne and himself, while enroute to some village, the name of which I do not recall, were overtaken by a band of Indians at the place called Painted Cave, that the Indians were in great numbers, and I believe during the fight the horse of Lt. Bullis was killed. That the Indians were about to surround them and that John Ward taken Lt. Bullis off with him of his (sic)Ward's horse, while Payne and Factor fought off the Indians, and that in this way they escaped. This medal the old gentleman guarded all these years and would not part with it for anything, but he has consented that I send it to you in hope that it may be of help in the prosecution of his claim. The old man is now feeble, in need and deserving, and if his story as relate to me is](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreiez53ctmsw5btowyoimwfkfxzibtykqdlv4xfmoyo55h2aydybitm)
![true, which I have reasons to believe is true, for the two witnesses to his application for pension, related to me that they had occasion to stop at the place where this fight with the Indians occured(sic) and looked over the grounds shortly after the fight, and that it was during the yer 1875, I cannot see why he is not entitled to a pension.
I have prepared affidavits for him signed by the two witnesses to his petition for pension, which affidavits are now on file in the Bureau of Pensions, to the effect that Pompey Factor and Pompey Facton is one and the same person, and the same party who now holds this medal, and why and when the medal was awarded to him. Should you find that anything can be done in this case, and should need other affidavits I think that we can procure them for parties here that served with Facton at that time.. We are unable to furnish affidavits by any of the parties that were with Facton in this fight with Indians a he is the only survivor, the other three named having died.
I am mailing you the medal under separate cover, and enclosing you herewith return postage, and will ask that after you have completed your investigation that you return same to me, as I have assumed the responsibility of returning the medal safely to this old gentleman.
Thanking you for any information concerning this claim, I am,
Yours very truly,
(Signature) Carl Kartes
(Handwritten note)
[6/5/06] Returned bronze medal inscribed " The Congress to Priv. Pompey Facton Indian [Scout]"
Carl Kartes (3 initials, cannot read)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreidygmj655j4ieqtwlbiso6g4bo5nbfg54jws34ca6ayctof4h26u4)
![By His Excellency
George Washington, Esq.
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
These are to Certify that the Bearer hereof
Prosper Gorton, Soldier
in the Rhode Island Regiment, having faithfully served the United States five years & three months
and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the
15th June 1783
G. Washington
By HIS EXCELLENCY'S
Command,
J. Trumbull [illegible]
REGISTERED in the Books
of the Regiment, Rhode Island
J. Greenman, Adjutant.
The above Prosper Gorton
has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for three
Years fa[i]thful Service.
Jereh. Olney Lieut. Col. Comd
Rhode Island Agent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreiepc26dqmo5kajutve5mv4thl6oq2wbezgekiwqtndv2egncqmrpm)
![Digitized from
Box 21 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library 512-10-76]
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
National Black History Month
February 1976
In the Bicentennial year of our Independence, we can
review with admiration the impressive contributions
of black Americans to our national life and culture.
One hundred years ago, to help highlight these achieve-
ments, Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association
for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. We
are grateful to him today for his initiative, and we are
richer for the work of his organization.
Freedom and the recognition of individual rights are
what our Revolution was all about. They were ideals
that inspired our fight for Independence: ideals that we
have been striving to live up to ever since. Yet it
took many years before these ideals became a reality
for black citizens.
The last quarter-century has finally witnessed signifi-
cant atrides in the full integration of black people into
every area of national life. In celebrating Black History
Month, we can take satisfaction from this recent prog-
ress in the realization of the ideals envisioned by our
Founding Fathers. But, even more than this, we can
seize- the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected
accomplishments of black Americans in every area of
endeavor throughout our history.
I urge my fellow citizens to join me in tribute to Black
History Month and to the message of courage and per-
severance it brings to all of us.
Gerald P. Ford](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreici2ty4ofuq5mywwyvezy6vmq6udxbhd35p2qy4e5gxvp4djrfzl4)
