Military papers, 1762-1944.

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Military papers, 1762-1944.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28411971

Correspondence, account book, commissions, orders, regulations, memoranda, notes, tables, schedules, discharges, pension papers, invoices, and other papers, relating to service in the Civil War, World War I, Normandy invasion, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Essex County, N.J., Military Commissioners, New Jersey militia, and New York militia. Includes records of Company I, 29th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. Persons represented include Daniel Blue, Charles Stuart Boggs, Oscar Bullus, William Colfax, Charles G. and William C. Davis, James DeVoe, William H. Emmons, Peter Low, William M. McKissack, Jedediah Swan, Benjamin Tappan, James C. Van Dyke, George Washington, William Watson, and Clyde Winterton.

112 items, 6 v., and 1 folder.

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McKissack, William M., 1775-1831.

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Swan, Jedediah

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