Scope and Contents "Lieutenant Samuel K. Thompson, formerly a Lieutenant and Brevet Major of the 54th US Infantry during the Civil War, kept this diary from 1870 while an officer of the 25th Regiment, US Infantry. In 1870, the regiment begins the year in Louisiana and then they are marched to San Antonio briefly and then Thompson’s company is marched on to Ft. Davis, Texas to control the Mexicans and the Indians in this remote outpost. The diary, identified in ink on the inside cover, is 3” x 7” in...