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to Friend Bemis

Relates events that took place during April 1865 in Fort Hell, Virginia (also known as Fort Sedgwick). Refers to the Seventh Regiment (possibly of the Rhode Island Volunteers). States that his Company was traveling to Farmville, Virginia when they...

GLC02750.034

to Samuel B. Ward

Captain Jenks writes to Ward, Assistant Surgeon at a general hospital, regarding the Descriptive List of Private P. Thornton.

GLC02750.035

to unknown

Informs the recipient that as Brigade Officer of the Day, the author found the men at several pickets "well instructed and vigilantly performing their duty." Written at Poplar Grove Church.

GLC02750.037

to James McElroy

requests Sergeant McElroy to send a Descriptive List to the hospital at Camp Denison. Written at Camp Dennison .

GLC02750.038

to G.D. Palmer

Requests Descriptive Lists from Palmer Written at Camp Dennison .

GLC02750.039

to Ethan A. Jenks

First Lieutenant Johnson requests information regarding surgeons working in the Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island Hospital during the years of 1864 and 1865 from Captain Jenks. Johnson requests this information for the widow of Sergeant [Dennis J.]...

GLC02750.041

to Ethan A. Jenks

Colonel Bliss declines an invitation for the annual meeting of the Seventh Rhode Island Veterans Association from Jenks, the Association's President.

GLC02750.042

to Ethan A. Jenks

Hopkins, who previously served in the Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, transmits blank paper and stamps to Jenks, requesting Jenks to record the details of his service during the Civil War. Based upon his research, Hopkins wrote The...

GLC02750.043

to Ethan A. Jenks

Hopkins sends Captain Jenks a block made from a picture of General Zenas Randall Bliss (not included). Informs Jenks of his plans to visit Civil War sites in Virginia.

GLC02750.044

[certificate of disability for discharge of James A. Briggs]

Surgeon George Rex certifies that James A. Briggs was enlisted by Ethan A. Jenks for military service on 18 August 1862. States that for the past two months, Briggs has been unfit for military service.

GLC02750.045