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February 23, 1862

More, Robert B., fl. 1862

Manuscript document

Title: [Board of Survey report]

Copy of a report on the supplies of R. S. Gardner, a lieutenant in the 3rd Provisional Brigade to Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon, as Colonel of the same brigade. The Board of Survey members were appointed under special orders no. 48. Signed by More as Captain, Company I, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, J.R. McMullin as Captain, 1st Battery Ohio Artillery, and James Taylor as 1st Lieutenant, 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Lists the pounds of bread, rice, hominy and potatoes in Gardner's possession. States that they are all damaged by rot and mold and therefore unfit for use of the troops…

GLC02414.148

10 February 1862

Taylor, James, fl. 1862

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Major W. Hayes

Two Survey Board members, Taylor, 1st Lieutenant, 30th Regiment Ohio and Russell Hastings, 2nd Lieutenant, Co. I, 23rd Regiment, write to Hayes, the Brigade Surgeon. States that they examined one two-wheeled ambulance and found one unfit for service.

GLC02414.149

circa March 8, 1862

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Scammon endorsement on a manuscript document regarding damages done to property of James. S. Cassady]

Survey Board report by McMullin as Captain, 1st Battery, Ohio Artillery; William H. Zimmerman, Captain Co. E, 23rd regiment Ohio; and William H. Harlan, Captain, Co. G, 30th regiment, Ohio. According to special orders no. 70, lists the damages done to Cassady's property on the Laurel Creek by U.S. troops. Also gives costs for repair of the grist mill. Autograph endorsement signed by Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon 23rd Ohio regiment approving the payment for the destruction.

GLC02414.150

2 May 1862

Hayes, Thomas, 1839-1863

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Board survey report on a box of clothing]

Board survey report requested by Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon, Colonel Commanding the 3rd brigade in special orders no. 118. Signed by Thomas Hayes, 1st Lieutenant, Co. A, 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Henry Rowan Brinkerhoff, 1st Lieutenant, Co. E. 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and Peter S. Soden, 2nd Lieutenant, Company F., 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Details the number of shoes in a box transferred from Captain and Assistant Quarter Master John Levering to R. S. Gardner, Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Quarter Master for the 3rd Brigade.

GLC02414.151

20 May 1862

Gilmore, George W., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Captain Gilmore of the 1st Virginia (West Virginia) Cavalry writes to Colonel Scammon of the 23rd Ohio to report one wounded soldier since the advance on Raleigh, West Virginia. Written from camp at Flat Top Mountain, West Virginia. Docket is very light but says, "Killed, missing, & wounded since leaving Raleigh, May 20, 1862."

GLC02414.152

20 May 1862

Gardner, Robert Skiles, 1839-?

Manuscript letter

Title: to Robert Patterson Kennedy

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Quarter Master Gardner writes to Kennedy, Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant General for the 1st Provisional Brigade, 23rd Ohio. Asks that a Board of Survey examine the loss of quarter master and commissary stores since 15 May 1862 on route from the East River to Flat Top Mountain, West Virginia. Written from Headquarters of the 1st Brigade at Flat Top Mountain.

GLC02414.153

21 June 1861