Correspondence and memoranda for Isaac G. Reed, 1814-1818.

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Correspondence and memoranda for Isaac G. Reed, 1814-1818.

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Correspondence regards militia business. Reed was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 3rd regiment, 2nd brigade, 11th division of the Massachusetts Militia and was instructed to form a new company in his town of Waldenborough. An incomplete draft of a letter concerns a complaint against a fellow officer. The document labeled "Memoranda" may be the "reports" mentioned by Alfred Hovey in the letter dated September 13, 1814. Reed fought in the regiment of Lt. Col. Samuel Thatcher in the War of 1812. Other names mentioned in the correspondence are William King and Samuel Page. Also includes a typed memoranda dated December 7, 1930 identifying the correspondents in the collection.

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Ten companies comprised the 12th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia: five from Boston, one from North Bridgewater, one from Abington, one from Weymouth, one from Stoughton, and one from Gloucester. After organization was completed, the regiment was ordered to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. Three months later it was sent to Harper's Ferry, Va., where it guarded the upper Potomac as part of Bank's division. From the description of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia records, 1861 [ma...

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