17 August 1793

Cleaveland, Moses, 1754-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Return of regimental staff for the 21st Connecticut militia]

Cleaveland signs as Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 21st militia.

GLC02499.03

6 September 1778

Glover, John, 1732-1797

Document signed

Title: [Muster roll for the 3rd Regiment, Massachusetts Bay forces commanded by Colonel William Shepard]

Brigadier General Glover signs on verso, attesting to the validity of this document. Job Alvord and Elihu Lyman, captain and lieutenant of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment, sign on verso. Also signed by D. Green. Appears to be torn, as some text is missing from the left margin. Includes a list of privates, drum and fife and contains a reference (partial text loss obscures the phrase) to Peekskill, New York.

GLC02499.06

3 July 1781

Nicolas, Lewis, 1717-1807

Autograph document signed

Title: [Return of former Delaware troops in the Invalid Regiment]

Nicola signs as Colonel of the Invalid Regiment. Lists the names of four soldiers and their dates of transfer from Delaware to the Invalid Regiment. States that though the men were transferred from Delaware into the Invalid Regiment they "are returned as belonging to the quota of that state."

GLC02499.15

11 September 1793

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Letter signed

Title: to unknown

Knox signs as Secretary of War. Writes "The want of instructions to Harleman was indeed an omission- No more stores are to be sent to Georgia at present. The returns of Clothing forwarded to the frontiers is enclosed. You will please to return it after copied. I am glad to learn your health- I am also well... " Written in the War Department.

GLC02623

January 27, 1862

Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 1822-1905

Letter signed

Title: to Charles Stewart

Written in camp near Edward's Ferry (possibly in Virginia). Dana, Colonel and Acting Inspector General, writes to Stewart, Assistant Adjutant General, Corps of Observation. Supports unspecified charges against Colonel George W. B. Tompkins, 2nd New York State Militia. Includes notes concerning Tompkins's muster and pay rolls for Company B to be used as evidence. Also encloses the pay accounts of Tompkins (not included). Numbered "52" at the top.

GLC02464.02

February 27, 1863

Dupont, Samuel F., 1803-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Bates

Written by Rear Admiral DuPont to U.S. Attorney General Bates. Says he perceives by a return made by the Navy Department to the House of Representatives on prizes that many cases have been appealed to the Supreme Court. Says many officers and himself have a financial interest in the proceedings and that he will ask his friend the Maryland U.S. Representative Henry Winter Davis to be his counsel before that court, if the goverment is not employing him. Du Pont was given direct orders from the Navy Department to launch an attack on Charleston, South Carolina, the main area in which the…

GLC02466.03

1811

Pike, Zebulon M., 1779-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Hamilton

Indicates to Lieutenant Hamilton that he has waited three days for the General and plans to move to another location. Asks for "the descriptive lists of those men whom the Genl. brought Down with him." The address identifies Hamilton as an aid de camp.

GLC02475.11

21 November 1862

Hershman, J.T., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Camden confederate. [Vol. 2, no. 4 (November 21, 1862)]

Schedule of the South Carolina Railroad. Proclamation of Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens, including 10 resolutions ordering all "white residents" to be put under arms in a militia immediately and the draft of all men ages 18 to 45. Asked to be printed twice in the newspapers. Letter to the editor is glad that the patrol system has been kept up without compulsion. Description of the reception and burial of General J. B. Villepigue, his staff, and 10 privates in Camden. Also two short articles: one on the death of Lieutenant Edward P. Niles and another on the body of Lieutenant H. M.…

GLC08494

9 February 1863

Gordon, S.W., fl. 1846-1871

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas H. Patterson

Circular letter signed by Captain Gordon as commander of the USS "Powhatan" to Commander Patterson of the USS "James Adger." Says he has been ordered by the admiral to remind all commanding officers off Charleston of General Order No. 11. Says at the beginning of every month they need to start sending to the commander in chief "a statement in tabular form of the number of contrabands onboard, their rates and the time and terms of their enlistment." Written while aboard the USS "Powhatan".

GLC08519

1 September 1861

Dawes, Rufus Robinson, 1838-1899

Printed document signed

Title: [Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores, 6th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry]

Signed by Dawes as Captain of Company "K" in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers. Printed form filled out by hand listing ordnance stores Dawes turned over to Colonel Lysander Cutler. Written at Camp Kalorama.

GLC08638

1862

Moore, George Henry, 1823-1892

Pamphlet

Title: Historical notes on the employment of Negroes in the American army of the Revolution.

Published by Charles T. Evans. Discusses the involvement of African Americans in the American Revolution. Includes a return of African American soldiers on page 17 (lists numbers of African Americans by state for 1778). Discusses the opinions of American statesmen on the topic of African Americans serving in the military. Assesses the service of African Americans in different states. Includes quotes from George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, among others.

GLC08405

September 30, 1846

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas S. Jesup

Transmitting a summary statement and muster roll of non-commissioned officers and privates from the 4th Regiment.

GLC00611

2 July 1863 - 3 July 1863

Manuscript document

Title: List of killed & wounded at the battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 2nd & 3rd 63

Manuscript field report of killed, wounded, and missing from the 1st Massachusetts Infantry. Most likely written while at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Includes comments such as "coward" and "d-d good soldier" after a few names.

GLC01015

January 2, 1806

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to John Sevier

Jackson explains that he will soon send a letter concerning the strength of his brigades. He has been delayed in doing so because one of his commanders has been late in filling his returns. He assures Sevier that if he does not receive a response soon, he will arrest the officer responsible, General Isaac Roberts. Also mentions Thomas Johnson and James Winchester, brigade commanders in the Second Division, West Tennessee Militia. The militia was being mobilized to deal with the threat of the Burr conspiracy, but the matter was resolved before military action was necessary. Letter signed by…

GLC01060

18 October 1787

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: [Muster roll of Potomac Company]

Signed by Richardson Stuart, authorizing payment of those on the muster list. Also signed by John Fitzgerald, Washington's former aide-de-camp, and by Colonel George Gilpin. Lists the names of workers in the Potomac Company, founded by George Washington to construct canals along the Potomac River.

GLC01083

circa 1778

Document

Title: [Payment and orders for a Massachusetts regiment]

States that each person enlisted will get two pounds per month. They will march to the heights of Dorchester, Massachusetts to be formed into regiments, and will serve until 1 December 1778 unless discharged sooner. On the reverse is a note stating that the total amount of money to hire men to serve in the army bound for Canada is $287.

GLC01450.129

1777-1790

Header Record

Title: John Ely collection of miscellaneous documents mostly receipts [Decimalized.01-.22]

Collection of various papers from John Ely, Revolutionary war colonel. Mostly receipts. Some documents mention prisoners.

GLC01450.143

31 October 1780

Traille, Peter, fl. 1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account of supplies used by the Royal Artillery in Charleston, South Carolina in October 1780]

Lists ordnance, building supplies, and smithery, wagon-making, repair, and laboratory supplies, the service for which they were needed and the quantities expended.

GLC01450.155

December 1781

Wray, George, fl. 1772-1793

Autograph document signed

Title: [Account of artillery stores released to James Boyd]

Signed by Wray as Commissary to the Royal Artillery. Boyd is described as "Matross in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Indicates that the supplies lists were for "the New Work on Hadress Point."

GLC01450.156

May 1, 1761

Saltonstall, Richard, fl. 1761

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Shepherd

Saltonstall, commander of a regiment during the French War, provides Shepherd the names of the officers who have been appointed to serve with him. He is ordered to make weekly returns to Major Salah Barnard of the number of men that he and his officers enlist. Details the form of the company's uniforms, and tells him the name and location of the tailor who will prepare these. Further orders will come from Major Barnard.

GLC01450.179

4 September 1778

Whitney, Josiah, 1752-1837

Document signed

Title: [Return of Colonel Whitney's Regiment]

Possibly created in an area known as Patuxet, Massachusetts. Lists the names of 13 captains. States that this document is intended for General Enoch Titcomb. Possibly created by Colonel Josiah Whitney.

GLC01450.190.02

May 1776

Jacobs, Joshua, fl. 1776-1777

Document signed

Title: [Abstract for Captain Joshua Jacob's Company in the 23rd Massachusetts Regiment]

Colonel John Bailey commanded the 23rd Massachusetts Regiment. Lists the number of soldiers in Jacobs's company.

GLC01450.190.03

19 August 1778

Titcomb, Enoch, 1747-1814

Document signed

Title: [Retun of Brigadier General Titcomb's brigade]

Lists numbers of commissioned officers, non commissioned officers, and privates. Lists two colonels (Whitney and Wadsworth).

GLC01450.190.05

17 October 1781

Manuscript

Title: [Summary of troops and equipment surrendered to General Horatio Gates by General John Burgoyne]

An unknown person compiled statistics relative to Burgoyne's surrender to Gates after the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The scrap of paper is dated in October 1781. Breaks down nationality of the captured soldiers, number of sick and wounded, types and number of artillery and small arms captured, etc. Also written on the sheet is a receipt for Daniel Epir to receive payment from Samuel Emory. On verso, in what appears to be an unrelated to the summary of captured troops, is a partial list of payments due to soldiers. They could be troops under Gates's command.

GLC01450.197.01

5 July 1778

Eames, Daniel, fl. 1778

Document signed

Title: [Return for men detached from Captain Daniel Eames's Company]

Created in Hopkington (possibly Hopkinton, Massachusetts). Indicates that men were detached from Eames's Company to serve in Colonel Samuel Bullard's Regiment "to Reinforce the Continental Armey untill the first January next." Lists the names of Sergeant Solomon Walker and Privates Amos Stimson, Daniel Sever, and Thomas Law.

GLC01450.215.01