Order book, 1862-1866.

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Order book, 1862-1866.

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Orders related primarily to administrative activities and functions of this Brooklyn based National Guard regiment. Many of the orders concern personnel matters such as enrollments, promotions, and discharges. Some of the more interesting orders concern its call to service during the Civil War, the anti-draft riots in New York City, and the funeral procession of Abraham Lincoln.

1 v. ; 40 cm.

New York State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7760806

New York State Library

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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...

New York (State). National Guard. Regiment, 13th

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Andersonville Prison, represented in the collection through its hospital records and registers, was located in southwest Georgia and operated for 15 months between 1864 and 1865. The site was used by the Confederate Army as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Union soldiers. At the time of its closure, almost 13,000 Union soldiers had died at Andersonville. The records were collected by E. P. Hopkins, a captured soldier from Ohio who worked as a steward in the prison hospital. ...