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Certificate of the election of Benjamin Butler Harris

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    Stock Certificate of J. H. Harris

    Manuscripts

    This certificate is for five shares of stock belonging to J. H. Harris. It is signed by W. F. Weeks and W. A. Rule.

    mssHM 75987

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    Francis B. Harris certificate of enlistment

    Manuscripts

    The small collection contains diaries, letters, documents, and a cabinet photograph of Francis B. and Margaret Harris, taken in Long Beach before 1908. Harris's diaries and letters, mostly to his wife, Margaret, cover the entire period of his military service in Maryland and Virginia, including accounts of the battles of Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Virginia campaign, as well as his extended stay at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1863. The documents include Harris's military and pension records, a certificate of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a list of soldiers in Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, written by Harris in June 1866. Accompanying the collection are some transcripts of parts of the collection, and related material, done by a national park service employee that had access to the original material.

    mssHarris

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    Francis B. Harris discharge certificate

    Manuscripts

    The small collection contains diaries, letters, documents, and a cabinet photograph of Francis B. and Margaret Harris, taken in Long Beach before 1908. Harris's diaries and letters, mostly to his wife, Margaret, cover the entire period of his military service in Maryland and Virginia, including accounts of the battles of Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Virginia campaign, as well as his extended stay at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1863. The documents include Harris's military and pension records, a certificate of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a list of soldiers in Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, written by Harris in June 1866. Accompanying the collection are some transcripts of parts of the collection, and related material, done by a national park service employee that had access to the original material.

    mssHarris

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    Francis B. Harris pension certificate

    Manuscripts

    The small collection contains diaries, letters, documents, and a cabinet photograph of Francis B. and Margaret Harris, taken in Long Beach before 1908. Harris's diaries and letters, mostly to his wife, Margaret, cover the entire period of his military service in Maryland and Virginia, including accounts of the battles of Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Virginia campaign, as well as his extended stay at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1863. The documents include Harris's military and pension records, a certificate of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a list of soldiers in Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, written by Harris in June 1866. Accompanying the collection are some transcripts of parts of the collection, and related material, done by a national park service employee that had access to the original material.

    mssHarris

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    Benjamin Lincoln certificate for a case of imported claret

    Manuscripts

    Certificate signed by Benjamin Lincoln, as the Customs Collection, certifying the importation of a case of claret, 1807 July 31. Countersigned by Thomas Melville, a major in the American Revolutionary War and participant in the Boston Tea Party (and the grandfather of author Herman Melville).

    mssHM 84484

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    George W. Buswell papers

    Manuscripts

    Fair copies of Buswell's war diaries created probably in the 1870s or 1880s, his military document (orders, muster-in and muster-out rolls, his oath of office, and a certificate of payment).

    mssHM 46330-46335