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Buyers, John, fl. 1862-1863 Returns of ordnance and ordnance stores

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02016.118 Author/Creator: Buyers, John, fl. 1862-1863 Place Written: New Bern, North Carolina Type: Document signed Date: 31 December 1862 Pagination: 12 p. ; 27 x 48 cm. Order a Copy

Includes returns for the quarter ending December 31, 1862. Adds remarks on the loss of some Austrian rifles. There are three copies of this document numbered 118a, 118b, and 118c. Written at Batchelder's Creek.

Buyers, John, fl. 1862

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