Miscellaneous military history of Gloucester, Mass.; condensed history of military life; history of Gloucester Artillery; remarks of William Parsons aboard armed schooner Madison in Gloucester July 1812; undated speech presenting descriptive book Muster Roll to Grand Army of the Republic Post #45; undated 9 page "Trip to Indianaples", an account of a train trip by Civil War veterans; Continental Army procuring men and supplies, mainly lists of men procured; military correspondence and signatory lists including 1780 list of donors of beef, blankets, shoes, and stockings for the Continental army, 1782 paper concerning raising money to carry on war, 1800 bill for cannon, 1814 powder and shot issued to forts and commanders and response to War Department for return of articles of ordnance; and War of 1812 correspondence on protection of Gloucester, issuance and return of equipment, locations of batteries and barracks, and returns of companies. Civil War papers concerning district appointments; papers (1861-1869) including communications from Fort Warren, 24th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, State Auditor, Adjutant General, Provost Marshal, Quarter Master General, War Department, Office of Surgeon General, and others concerning new recruits, discharges, deserters, promotions, death notices, volunteer enlistments, surplus men, general limits of military districts, muster payrolls, returning guns, and bounties; signatory lists of names of persons subscribing money for enlistment of seamen and soldiers; 1898 letter from Secretary of War concerning Gloucester defenses; general law of 1863 concerning City Clerk making record of soldiers and sailors; letters (1899-1900, 1917) from U.S. congressmen and others in response to requests for information on war service of Gloucester men in wars from the Revolution through the Spanish War; lists of veterans of Civil War through World War I; Civil War list of soldiers and sailors with names, company, regiment, or ship with some information on wounds and deaths; correspondence on bounty payments, and recruitment list, Gloucester quota 1864 with Regiment or Navy designation; and photocopies of City Council resolutions of respect for World War I casualties.
