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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

 Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Hatheway family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2281
Abstract

Papers relating to the family, personal affairs, and political career of Samuel Gilbert Hatheway (1780-1867).

Dates: 1788-[ca. 1900]

New York State Militia Cortland County enrollment book

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239539]
Identifier: 227
Scope and content

Lists of names, residence, age, and classification of men eligible for military duty; Samuel M. Kinney, enrolling officer; regiment and company uncertain, but Towns of Cortlandville, Freetown, Homer, and Virgil are included; a number of men whose names appear, later became members of the 185th Regiment, New York Volunteers, mustered September 1864.

Dates: 1864.

New York State Militia enrollment book

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239349]
Identifier: 149
Scope and content

List of names of men liable for military duty in the state militia, giving age, class, and physical defects; Jacob S. Greene, enrolling officer; filed in clerk's office, Lansing, Tompkins County N.Y..

Dates: 1864.

Pratt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 223
Abstract Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George...
Dates: 1758-1903