Manuscripts
Military requisition for steel cooking range
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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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Muster rolls of companies B and F of the 24th U.S. Infantry
Manuscripts
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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Regimental returns of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army, with additions and emendations by Gardner Tufts, (bulk 1779-1781)
Manuscripts
The regimental returns of the personnel of the 8th Massachusetts regiment kept by Francis Tufts, the adjutant to Colonel Michael Jackson (1734-1801), for the period from 1778 September 3- December 18, when the men were stationed in the Hudson Valley. After the war, Gardner Tufts and possibly other family members (it is written in a variety of hands) filled the added leaves with different material including: a brief narrative of Francis Tufts' military service; copies of orders taken from other regimental order books (including some by George Washington); moral, patriotic and religious essays, reflections, poetry, diagrams, and speeches; and sketches of family homes. Also includes tipped in lithographic portraits of Christopher Columbus, Charles Carroll (last living signer of the Declaration of Independence), George Washington, John Warren (physician and brother of Joseph Warren, hero of Bunker Hill), Marquis de Lafayette, John Adams, Edward Augustus Holyoke (Massachusetts physician and educator), and President William Henry Harrison. Volume also contains several, smaller manuscript items laid in. Front cover is detached; some signs of foxing and water damage.
mssHM 84015
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Military Records of E.A. Carr
Manuscripts
Order of discharge and expense report for Eugene Asa Carr from the United States Army in 1868.
mssHM 80238
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Philippine American War letter
Manuscripts
This letter written by an American soldier, to his family, while stationed in the Philippines during the Philippine American War gives a lengthy description of the fighting. The letter is from Passi, P.I. [Philippine Islands], is on Spanish letterhead and is signed "Malcolm." At the end of the letter, he writes "This is captured paper."
mssHM 83174
Orderly book of the New Jersey Brigade, 1782, Nov. 9 - Dec. 31, Newburgh, N.Y
Manuscripts
Brigade orderly book, containing general and brigade orders and a list of the officers. There are three forged signatures of George Washington
mssHM 604