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    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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    Register and prescription book of 210th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers

    Manuscripts

    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

    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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    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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    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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    Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ending

    Rare Books

    Provides data, statistical and tabular, on the operations and activities of the Surgeon General's Office including financial statements, reports on health and hygiene in the Army, hospitals, medical supplies, brief agency histories, etc.

    107616