Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

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Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

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Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1867), dealing with the work of the Union Defence Committee. The collection includes approximately 1,000 letters, mostly from 1861, in one bound volume and two boxes, one of which also contains a printed summary of Comptroller's warrants; two requisitions books; two check books for the Committee's two accounts with the bank of Commerce in New-York, one dated 1861, the other 1861-1867; a small bank book from the same bank, dated 1861-1867; four large account books, dealing respectively with transactions with the U.S. Fund (almost blank), the City of New York, the Voluntary Fund (mostly listing payments to specific regiments), and relief of families (including a subscription list); a book detailing contributions by the citizens of New York for departing regiments; two volumes of claims for supplies to New York regiments; a volume giving summaries of claims; a ledger detailing payments to individual regiments; a volume recording suppliers' bills; minutes of the Committee, 1861-1862, and of the Executive Committee, 1861-1865; a book of telegrams, and a notebook detailing the Committee's account with the Astor Telegraph Company; a box of papers containing an unbound and unsewn copy of "The Union Defence Committee of the city of New York. Minutes, reports, and correspondence; with an historical introduction," by John Austin Stevens, and related letters and other printed and manuscript material.

3 linear ft. (20 v., 3 boxes)

Churchill County Museum

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Churchill County Museum

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