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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Orderly book of Lieutenant Colonel Ely Kershaw, 1779, Feb. 26 - Apr. 23, Georgia and South Carolina
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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Orderly book of Benjamin Lincoln's command during the operations on the Southern theater, including Charleston, Purysburg, Black Swamp, Silver Bluff, Ford's Ferry, Bacon's Bridge, etc. from 1778, Dec. 6 through June 27, 1779. Also included are two orders to General Department issued at Charleston on Aug. 3 and Aug. 7, 1779.
mssHM 659
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Orderly book of the 7th Company of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment kept by Stephen Barrett. Included are regimental, brigade, and general orders, morning reports, etc. The book contains John Nixon's Address to officers and soldiers of his brigade ( October 23, 1779)
mssHM 680
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Regimental orderly book containing general, brigade and regimental orders, proceedings of courts martial, etc. kept by Tobias Fernald from August 10, 1779 to February 6, 1780
mssHM 3085
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A battalion orderly book covers Prevost's raid. The first entry, April 27, 1779, was penned when the British forces concentrated at Ebenezer, Ga., about to cross into South Carolina; the last is dated June 15, five days before the British victory of Stono Ferry. The orders cover different aspects of the campaign: logistics; Southern loyalists; numerous Negro slaves who "horly resorts to the army," and particularly "great want of Dissiplen." The orders for May 29 noted that "the Batt[alio]n is now become so notorious for maurauding & plundering White & Negroe women of all Denominations, the men absenting themselves from camp day & night without leave asked or given," that the commanding officer had to call on other officers to "to exert their authority in support of their own character & at least to preserve some part of that character given to Scotsmen on the field."
mssHM 72267
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Orderly book of Robert Clayton's company of the 17th Regiment of Foot. Included are general and regimental orders, records of appointments and promotions, courts martial, etc.
mssHM 52666