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[note stating that one deserter "came in last night"]

GLC02750.212

[note listing the number of men serving under Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.213

[list of men in Company I, Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, to be transferred]

GLC02750.214

[blank printed form for volunteer enlistment]

GLC02750.215

[blank printed instructions for rolls, return, and reports required from company commanders]

GLC02750.216

to Ethan A. Jenks

Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores

GLC02750.217

to Ethan A. Jenks

Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores

GLC02750.218

[List of property in possession of Company I, Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

Marked as a duplicate copy.

GLC02750.219

[List of property in possession of Company H, Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.220

[List of ordnance stores received]

GLC02750.221

[List of ordnance stores received]

GLC02750.222

[Record of one bayonet received]

GLC02750.223

[Record of a musket and equipment received by Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.225

[List of ordnance stores received]

GLC02750.226

[Ordnance stores turned over to Lieutenant Hunt by Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.227

[Ordnance stores turned over to Lieutenant Hunt by Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.228

[Ordnance stores received by Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.229

[Ordnance stores issued to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.230

[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by Hunt to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.231

[envelope]

Jenks noted that this envelope previously contained quarterly returns of ordnance and ordnance stores during the quarter ending in September 1863.

GLC02750.232

[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by James Merrill to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.233

[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by James Merrill to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.235

[Ordnance stores received by Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.236

[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by James Merrill to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.237

[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by James Merrill to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.238

[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by Bates to Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

GLC02750.240

[Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.395

[Envelope addressed to Mary Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Mary Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.01

[Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.02

[Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.03

[Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.04

[Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.05

[Envelope addressed to William Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to William Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.06

[Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.07

[Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh]

Envelope addressed to Nelson Rifenburgh, Germantown, Columbia County, NY.

GLC08914.045.08

[Copy of Special Orders restoring Ethan A. Jenks to command]

Restores Jenks to command with pay from the date at which he rejoins his regiment. Signed across the page on 17 September 1863 by Scovel, United States Additional Paymaster. Scovel confirms that Jenks has been paid up to 4 May 1863.

GLC02750.059

to Ethan A. Jenks

Sawyer, United States Paymaster, requests a copy of the 3 May 1863 order discharging Captain Jenks from military service.

GLC02750.063

to unknown

Law firm Chipman et al. discuss Captain Ethan A. Jenks' pay for the period subsequent to 4 May 1863. Request other officers' statements regarding Jenks' service to 3 July 1863, if it may be obtained.

GLC02750.066

[Jenks relates the chronological details of his military dismissal and reinstatement from memory]

Relates 2 July 1863 Notice of Dismissal charging him for missing a 4 May 1863 appearance before a military commission which he had not been notified of. States that he admitted Private James Briggs into service without knowing that he was physically...

GLC02750.068

to Thomas M. Vincent

Signed by Vincent and returned to Jenks on 19 August 1863. Captain Jenks asks that Vincent, Assistant Adjutant General, inform him of the decision made concerning his case for reinstatement of command.

GLC02750.060

to Edwin M. Stanton

Jenks writes to Stanton, Secretary of War, regarding his pay between the date of his dismissal and the time he received notification of dismissal. Colonel Bliss confirms Jenks' claims.

GLC02750.061

[confirms the dates of Ethan A. Jenks' service in the Seventh Regiment of the Rhode Island Volunteers]

Colonel Daniels confirms the dates of Ethan A. Jenks' service and that Jenks did not receive his order of dismissal until 3 July 1863.

GLC02750.062

[statement regarding Captain Jenks' pay between the times of his dismissal and reinstatement from military service]

Walker signs as Justice of the Peace. Contains Jenks' statement that he was dismissed on 4 May 1863, but learned of this dismissal while in the field 3 July 1863. Jenks requests pay for the period between 4 May 1863 and 12 June 1863.

GLC02750.064

to Lorenzo Thomas

Captain Jenks writes to Adjutant General Thomas, requesting a copy of the 12 June 1863 special orders containing his military dismissal.

GLC02750.065

to Ethan A. Jenks

French, Second Auditor of the United States Treasury, transmits a certificate of payment (not included) to Captain Ethan A. Jenks. Stamped across the page by the Second Auditor's Office and dated June 1871.

GLC02750.067

to the United States Senate and House of Representatives

Jenks' statement claiming he was unaware of the order dismissing him from military service until he received the order in the field during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi

GLC02750.069

[confirms that James A. Briggs was unfit for military service at the time of enlistment]

Rex, a surgeon, confirms that Private James A. Briggs received a bounty though he only served in the military for one month.

GLC02750.070

to Abraham Lincoln

Captain Jenks requests that President Lincoln reconsider the 12 June 1863 order dismissing him from military service.

GLC02750.071

[monthly return of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage]

Monthly return of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage. 31 July 1863.

GLC02750.072

[monthly return of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage]

Monthly return of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage. 30 September 1863

GLC02750.073