Horace Bumstead collection of documents concerning ordnance of the 43rd regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops, 1864-1865.

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Horace Bumstead collection of documents concerning ordnance of the 43rd regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops, 1864-1865.

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Printed document forms concerning the issuance and return of military weapons to the volunteers of the 43rd regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops in the Union Army. Report forms completed in manuscript (probably by Bumstead). Also includes some letters concerning ordnance.

1 box (.3 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 43rd (1864-1865)

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Bumstead, Horace, 1841-1919

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Horace Bumstead (1841-1919) was the son of Josiah Freeman Bumstead, a Boston merchant, and Lucy Douglas Willis Bumstead. He was educated at the Boston Latin School and Yale College (Class of 1863) and became a Congregationalist minister and educator. During the Civil War, Bumstead was commissioned as a Major for the 43rd regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops where he served from April 1864 to December 1865. He later joined the faculty of Atlanta University and served as their second president from...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...