Civil War papers, 1861-1878.
Title:
Civil War papers, 1861-1878.
These papers contain primarily Union Army muster rolls, consolidated reports, returns, enlistment certificates, with some Civil War correspondence, official and personal, reminiscences, miscellaneous manuscripts and memorabilia. Major groups of regimental papers are: Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, enlistment certificates for Company G, 1862, orders, 1862, and muster rolls, October 1864; New York Volunteers, 67th Regiment (Long Island Volunteers, 1st Regiment) Company K, muster rolls, 1862-1864, return notices, 1863-1864, and morning reports, July-November 1862; Pennsylvania Volunteers, 96th and 98th Regiments, scattered muster rolls; Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corp, 7th Regiment, Company G, record books, 1861-1864, of clothing, personnel descriptive list, orders, and morning reports; Matthew Hasting Independent Keystone Battery record books, 1862-1864, morning reports, post guard reports, and clothing. Enlistment related papers consist of Marine Corps enlistment certificates at Philadelphia, November 1862-January 1863; Citizens Bounty Fund Committee, Philadelphia, muster rolls of reserve units, September 1862; Philadelphia Sixth Ward enlistment certificates, 1864-1865, and some financial papers; Camden City Middle Ward enrollment list, August 1862. There are also Office for the Relief of the Families of Philadelphia Volunteers payment orders, 1861-1865. Additionally there are copies of correspondence, 1861-1862, between Major General Robert Patterson and General Winfield Scott on military operations of the first Bull Run Campaign; William H. Manley, private with Pennsylvania Volunteers, 72nd Regiment (Baxter's Fire Zouaves), letters, 1861-1862; David D. Jones, officer with Pennsylvania Volunteers, 88th Regiment, letters, 1862-1863; and [John F.] Reynolds Monument Committee, minutes and papers, 1864-1878. A small section of Confederate miscellany includes some letters, 1861-1862.
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6 linear ft.
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