New York State Adjutant General photograph collection. 1861-1865.

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New York State Adjutant General photograph collection. 1861-1865.

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Contains the following type of materials: photographs. Covers the following wars: Revolutionary War, Civil War. General description of the collection: The New York State Adjutant General photograph collection includes photographic reproductions of original images of Civil War soldiers, almost exclusively from the state of New York. The collection was begun in 1863 by Lockwood L. Doty, Chief of the State's Bureau of Military Statistics, as part of a larger effort to document the wartime participation of New Yorkers. The collection was later exhibited with other relics in the Flag Room in the State Capitol in Albany until the early 1960s. Although display methods and long term exposure to light and handling damaged many images, the collection provides a cross section of New York's contribution. There are images documenting nearly all of the State's militia, national guard and volunteer artillery, cavalry, and engineer and infantry units. Noticeably absent in any quantity, however, are images of distinctively uniformed soldiers, suggesting that these were selectively removed over time. There are also some images of Regular Army, Marine Corps, and Navy personnel; Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans; and other images including, barracks, civilians, Lincoln's funeral cortege in Albany, military monuments, and ships. The original images are in the custody of the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, Saratoga Springs, New York.

27 boxes (2,580 photographs)

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7672718

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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New York (State). National Guard

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No law was found which specifically required the keeping of an enlistment roll. Chapter 80, Laws of 1870; Chapter 299, Laws of 1883; and Chapter 212, Laws of 1898, governed the National Guard during the period covered by this series. From the description of Enlistment Roll of the Third Battery, Second Division, 1870-1916. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 83095544 ...

New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

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It is unclear exactly how these volumes came into the State's possession. They may have been forwarded to the Adjutant General who in turn transferred them to the State Library; the State Library then transferred the volumes to the State Archives in the spring of 1978. A second possibility is that the volumes could have been donated to the Bureau of Military Statistics. In 1911 and 1912 the Adjutant General's Office transferred a large number of items collected by the bureau to the State Library...

New York (State). Militia

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Levies were special regiments recruited under provisions of the legislature which entitled recruits to plots of unappropriated land. From the description of Levy certificates issued record book. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122617529 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...