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Quartermaster's monthly returns of clothing, camp and garrison equipage. Records kept by Captain Gardner of Company F, 148th Regiment, New York Volunteers while stationed in Virginia.

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Quarterly return of ordnance, and ordnance stores received for Company "L" in the fall of 1864, when it was stationed on Morris Island, South Carolina.

Scope and content Collection of ten signed documents including 8 itemized Special Requisitions, 1 p., and 2 Monthly Returns of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, 8 pp., documents, all received and issued at Camp in the Fields, Virginia. Four are dated November, 1864; one April, 1865; and five May, 1865. All Special Requisitions are signed by George W. Snyder, Commanding Officer, and a variety of Captains with the Returns signed by Lt. J. W. Rice, Quartermaster. Includes items such as trousers, drawers,...

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Letter from a Civil War soldier to an unnamed friend written from Hazens Mill, Tennessee, in which the writer lists in detail the size and contents of a foot soldier's pack and describes the Confederate charge at Fort Saunders (November 29th) during the Siege of Knoxville.

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Civil War letters and daily journals of William Harrison Root, a lieutenant in Company B, 75th Regiment, New York Volunteers. Also a notebook of Root's, clippings, and his account book of Company B, 1861. Also, letters and reminiscences, between Helen Isabel Root and her parents. Additional material includes account books, clippings, correspondence and transcripts, pamphlets, genealogical charts, deeds and other legal documents, and photographs of the Shepard and Osborn families.