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Edwin Artz orders

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Description: Orders for Hospital Steward Edwin Artz to report to Surgeon R.S. Satterlee, Medical Purveyor in New York, New York. Signed by Acting Surgeon General C. H. Crane.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1863 November 9.
Call number: mssHM 84195
Creator: United States(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of February 2020.
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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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Military requisition for steel cooking range

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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.

mssHM 84052

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Morning reports and orders, Fort Dalles

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A collection of 3,070 items from 1850 to 1885, which consists of Fort Dalles official records that document the activities of the U.S. Army in the Pacific Northwest, primarily in Oregon from 1850 to 1885. The collection contains official correspondence, orders, post returns, quartermaster reports, and two letter books largely for Fort Dalles, Oregon. Subject matter in the collection includes the operation of Forts Dalles, Simcoe, Vancouver, and Yamhill and also various Native American wars and campaigns, including the Yakima expeditions from 1855 and 1858, the Snake/Shoshone campaigns from 1855 to 1864, the Modoc War in 1873, the Nez Percé War, and the Bannock War in 1878. Significant persons represented in the collection include John T. Apperson, Edward R.S. Canby, Chief Joseph, George B. Currey, Oliver Otis Howard, Winfield Scott, and George Wright.

FD 1898

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Land grant to the heirs of Abraham Kirkpatrick, assignee of Lewis Fox :

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Letters patent for 100 acres of land "Northwest of the River Ohio between the Little Miami and Scioto" that had been granted to Lewis Fox for military service by an act of Congress in 1790. Signed in secretarial hand for President Martin Van Buren; also signed by Acting Recorder of the General Land Office Joseph S. Wilson.

mssHM 42363

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Land grant to the heirs of Abraham Kirkpatrick, assignee of William Hook :

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Letters patent for 100 acres of land "Northwest of the River Ohio between the Little Miami and Scioto" that had been granted to William Hook for military service by an act of Congress in 1790. Signed in secretarial hand for President Martin Van Buren; also signed by Acting Recorder of the General Land Office Joseph S. Wilson.

mssHM 42362

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Land grant to the heirs of Abraham Kirkpatrick, assignee of John Welch :

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Letters patent for 200 acres of land "Northwest of the River Ohio between the Little Miami and Scioto" that had been granted to John Welch for military service by an act of Congress in 1790. Signed in secretarial hand for President Martin Van Buren; also signed by Acting Recorder of the General Land Office Joseph S. Wilson.

mssHM 42360

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