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Military requisition for steel cooking range

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Description: Two documents related to the activities of medical officers and War Department bureaucracy during the occupation of the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War. The first document is a letter from Matthew H. Ellis, Major and Surgeon, requesting a steel range for the preparation of food for the treatment of sick and convalescent patients of the Oregon Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, stationed in Manila. The verso of the letter contains multiple endorsements signed by various officers, Chief Quartermasters, and surgeons passing the request up the chain of command with the request ultimately being denied. Also enclosed is the Special Requisition printed form, filled in and dated November 9, 1898.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1898 November 8.
Call number: mssHM 84052
Creator: United States

HMS Bristol ship's surgeon logbook

Manuscripts

Record kept by the surgeon of the HMS Bristol, to track the names of sick sailors as well as their maladies and treatments.

mssHM 84019

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Samuel Preston Moore requisitions

Manuscripts

The group of documents includes five special requisition forms for supplies for the Army General Hospital in Camargo, Mexico. They are signed by Army surgeon Samuel P. Moore (one is by Army surgeon Alexander Macrae). They were all received by Captain George H. Crosman, Assistant Quartermaster. There is also a letter by Army Surgeon David Camden DeLeon, written from Mexico City, inquiring about a lost trunk that "was left in the room next to the one occupied by General Scott...when they were at the Brazos."

mssHM 74834-74839

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Register and prescription book of 210th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers

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Register and prescription book of the 210th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. The register was kept by the regimental surgeon, W. Stockton Wilson, in accordance with the orders of the Army Medical Dept.

mssHM 55577

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Muster rolls of companies B and F of the 24th U.S. Infantry

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The muster rolls, each measuring 53 x 81 cm, were kept when the regiment was stationed on the Texas-Mexico border of the Rio Grande Valley in 1874. The documents record information such as pay, duties, discharges, health, and some genealogical information of troop members.

mssHM 83978

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Official correspondence, copies

Manuscripts

Copies and extracts from letter books: Officers' Letters; Letters to Officers of Ships of War; Letters of the Brazil Squadron; Papers Relating to the Brazil Squadron, and others, 1853-1884. Copies concern a controversy relating to the sue of the Episcopal liturgy by the Navy; in the hand of Captain Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain, U.S.N.

mssHM 196

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Small volumes, various

Manuscripts

Contains the following volumes: Guard report books, Fort Dalles (1855); Consolidated report of troops stationed at Fort Yamhill, Oregon Territory (1856-1857); Letter book and order book, Fort Yamhill (1857-1866); Council Book, Fort Simcoe, Washington Territory (1857); First Lieutenant Robert Pollock letter book (1869-1872).

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