1 August 1778

Woodberry, Stephen, fl. 1778

Document signed

Title: [Roll of Ipswich men receiving payment for service at Providence, Rhode Island]

Signed by many other men. Acknowledges the receipt of nine pounds each from the selectmen of Ipswich in partial pay for serving in the six weeks campaign at Providence, Rhode Island under Captain Robert Dodge.

GLC01450.095.01

14 May 1777

Carpenter, Jonathan, fl. 1777

Manuscript

Title: [Mount Independence muster roll]

A list of Captain Davis Howlitt's company in Colonel John Ashley's First Berkshire regiment.

GLC01450.100

February 28, 1780

Prescott, Oliver, 1731-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Prescott signed as Major General, Massachusetts militia. Informs that he is enclosing a return of the militia officers of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, which he just received. He has not gotten the return from Worcester County, Massachusetts yet.

GLC01450.101

circa 1776

Manuscript

Title: [Muster roll of first foot company from Dighton]

Lists officers and soldiers.

GLC01450.118

January 16, 1776

Manuscript

Title: [Captain Wright's muster roll] [incomplete]

Lists men's names, rations, and service. Missing upper left corner of page and lower right quadrant of the page.

GLC01450.119

circa 1776

Manuscript

Title: Muster roll

Lists men's names, rank, enlistment date, and distance traveled. Simon Edgel listed as Captain.

GLC01450.120

1777

Manuscript

Title: [List of officers of Colonel Samuel McClellan's regiment]

Lists officers and their place of residence.

GLC01450.122

16 August 1776

Manuscript

Title: [Account of men left sick from the 17th regiment of Captain Ebenezer Bissell's company]

Lists the men left sick along the road or at Roxbury Hospital when the regiment marched for New York 5 July 1776. Also lists expenses.

GLC01450.123

January 27, 1778

McNall, James, fl. 1778

Document signed

Title: [Receipt of bounty]

Signed by many others. Certifies that the men of Simsbury have received from Captain Jonathan Humphrey wages, bounty, and mileage for an expedition to Providence, Rhode Island October 1777 under Colonel Samuel McClellan's regiment. Page two is also signed by some of the same men, stating that they have received six shillings from Colonel Noah Phelps as bounty or premium for the same expedition.

GLC01450.124

1776-1786

Header Record

Title: Three documents related to the military service of Gideon Stebbins [Decimalized]

GLC01412.10

December 12, 1779

Van Cortlandt, Philip, 1749-1831

Document signed

Title: [Return muster roll for the New York brigade]

Return of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the New York Brigade of foot commanded by James Clinton. Includes terms of service of those engaged for the period 1780-1782.

GLC01412.44

1777

Chapin, Ephraim, 1745-1812

Document signed

Title: [Pay roll for Captain Ephraim Chapin's Company]

Also signed by William Pynchon, who attests to the validity of this pay roll. Includes names, dates of engagement and discharge, rank, and amount of pay per soldier.

GLC01412.64.11

March 12, 1777

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript document

Title: [Orders to submit a regimental return]

A working draft of a clerical copy of a circular letter from George Washington. These, or comparable, orders were given by George Washington on 12 March 1777 to various colonels of the Continental Army. (See Fitzpatrick and the GW Papers at the Library of Congress for numerous examples, which demonstrate slightly varied wording.) Instructs recipient to "march all the Recruits you have to Philadelphia, where they will be inoculated and receive farther Orders from the Commanding officers of that City ... Every Commanding officer should know where his inferior officers, and these where their…

GLC01205.04

December 4, 1776

Autograph document

Title: The names of those in Captain Arnold's company which crossed the North River Dec 4th, 1776

A list of the men in Captain Arnold's company who crossed the North River on December 4, 1776.

GLC02150.04

9 June 1862 - 30 March 1863

Leigh, John D., fl. 1863

Manuscript signed

Title: Morning Report Book of Company G 1 Fla Vols

Covers a number of periods. Book was first used as a morning report book by Company G of the First Florida Volunteers in the summer of 1862. Counts number of present and absent members of the company and gives their rank. Used from 9 June 1862 through 27 August 1862, by the end of which period over a third of the men have become sick. The second part consists of similar morning reports from 13 December 1862 through 28 February 1863. Captain John D. Leighs is listed as the commanding officer. The reports now include company H as well, and are now signed by various officers, including…

GLC02168

1864-1905

Various

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Civil War letters from various soldiers & civilians] [decimalized]

Collection of 51 letters, including 24 wardate soldiers' letters, to recipients in Lancaster and York County, Pennsylvania. Written by various individuals, mostly to Isaac Cover (Kover, Coover) and family in Pennsylvania. Most have envelopes. Notable are letters to Isaac Cover from hospitalized Henry Gorman (1864-65) and Henry B. Blecher (Pennsylvania Cavalry) (1864-65). Includes some love letters to Elizabeth Cover (Kover) from Jacob Cupp and other miscellaneous letters, mostly from the 1860s. Word processed inventory available with list of dates and recipients but no description.

GLC02197

1863-1865

Williston, Leander A., 1830-?

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Leander A. Williston, B company, 3rd regiment, Massachusetts, heavy artillery] [Decimalized .01- .60]

Williston was Lieutenant in the 6th Co. Massachusetts Volunteers. Collection includes his appointment as Sergeant in Company 6 of the Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 27 June 1863, cloth map, muster rolls and ordnance reports and correspondence from Fort Ricketts.

GLC02198

1750-1820

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Header Record

Title: Henry Knox papers, including retained and received correspondence, &c. [Decimalized .00001 - .10737]

Letters and documents, written to or by Knox, who served as chief of Artillery during the Revolution, and then as Secretary of War under the Articles of Confederation and in President Washington's first administration. The collection includes Knox's voluminous correspondence with luminaries like Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Benjamin Lincoln, Nathanael Greene, John and John Q. Adams, Hancock and Paine. It also includes his business and wartime correspondence, and the charming and affectionate letters between Knox and his wife, Lucy Flucker Knox. Much interesting business and personal…

GLC02437

23 December 1864

Treadwell, Thomas James, ?-1879

Document signed

Title: [Official ordnance document]

Partially printed document, with printed signature. Treadwell, Captain of Ordnance, informs Captain Albert A. Day (Company K, 20th Michigan Infantry, 9th Corps) that his return of ordnance and ordnance stores for the fourth quarter of 1864 has been examined in the Ordnance Office, and referred to the Second Auditor for settlement. Ordnance department envelope included, indicating that contents of the envelope pertain to official business of Alexander B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance.

GLC02249.01

23 May 1864

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Personal military checklist]

Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, writes in pencil on Artillery Headquarters, Army of the Potomac stationery. Notes things he needs to do, including making sure rations are drawn, obtaining several field returns, confirming that ammunition has been drawn before leaving Fredericksburg, Virginia, etc. Cites one captain's refusal to act as commissary, and mentions the 2nd, 5th, and 6th corps of infantry. Lists other notes. Possibly written in Virginia. Content pertains to the campaign of Cold Harbor.

GLC02382.032

2 May 1780

Harmar, Josiah, 1753-1813

Document signed

Title: [Muster roll of Captain Andrew Irvine's Company, 7th Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot]

Harmar signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Regiment. Signed and examined by William Alexander. Irvine signs on verso 4 May, attesting to the validity of this document. Lists officers divided into categories of sergeant, private, corporal, and drum & fife. Inlaid with a paper border.

GLC02085

9 April 1865 on or after

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

Letter

Title: to Robert E. Lee

Contemporary military copy of Grant's surrender terms for General Lee, signed by the clerk and labeled a copy. Proposes the terms on which he will receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Directs Lee to create two rolls of all officers and men in the Confederate Army, one to be given to an officer Grant designates, and one to an officer Lee designates. Requests that all officers give their individual parole that they will not take up arms against the United States and orders that each company and regimental commander must sign the same oath for the men under them. Indicates…

GLC02124

9 March 1790 - 21 November 1792

Manuscript document

Title: The United States of America for Sundry expenditures from the 10th Sept 1789, to the 1st of March

Lists transactions for the account of Joseph Howell Junior, Paymaster General, by name and date. Includes amounts. Noted as written in the Auditors Office and the Pay office in New York City. Countersigned as a true copy by Joseph Nourse [?].

GLC02437.04523

4 November 1791

Manuscript document

Title: Pay due the non commissioned officers and privates...in the year 1791 who were actually discharged at Fort Washington

Date from title. Lists officers and the pay due to them as of 4 November. Noted as a copy in the upper left corner. Noted as A and N 11 at the top of the first page. Extensive water damage at the top of the document. Watermarked. Letterpress copy.

GLC02437.10239

28 September 1793

Bissell, Daniel, 1754-1824

Autograph document signed

Title: A weekly report of the recruits at Middletown under the command of Ensign Daniel Bissell

Reports that there are 8 privates and 1 sergeant on duty at Middletown, Rhode Island.

GLC02437.05934