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This collection consists of official papers of Prussian war and domain councillor von Brause (given name unknown), kept at the Royal Chambers at Peterkau and Posen; papers of the field war commissaries during the Polish campaign; commissions, orders, and official correspondence relating to journey routes for his Royal Majesty; affairs of the Commissary; provisions for the army; captured Polish ordnance; and other matters less

Orderly book containing general orders issued by General Washington at Valley Forge and on the march from Monmouth, N.J. to White Plains, N.Y. The orderly book was kept by Christopher Meng, Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General, and dates from April 22, 1778 to August 6, 1778 less

A register of the U.S. Army containing promotions to October, and corrections up to January 1, 1815, with manuscript emendations giving biographical data dated 1815 to 1829. The fly leaves contain Army records in manuscript from 1787 to 1823, and statistics of the War of 1812 less

This collection contains an advance draft of the "Utilization of Negro Manpower in the Army: A 1951 Study", and a copy of The Reporter (December 1954) which includes Leo Bogart's article. There are also several reports including "The Army and Its Negro Soldiers"; "The Utilization of Negro Troops in Korea: A Report on a Field Survey", June 1951; and "The Utilization of Negro Troops in Korea: A Supplementary Report", September 1951. Additionally, there are copies of correspondence between Bogart and officials concerning the declassification of the "Utilization of Negro Manpower.". less

One volume, containing a report by William E. Johnson to James B. Dunn, Chairman, National Advisory Board of the National Temperance Congress and Secretary, National Temperance Society. The report, dated June 1898, gives results of observations made in various U.S. Army camps while studying the effect of canteens upon the morale of the Army less

One volume containing copies of orders received and issued to the Siege Train, U. S. Army, en route to and during the Mexican Campaign. The volume contains routine, general, and special orders; lists of armament of the train; and court martials. Josiah Gorgas was an ordnance lieutenant for the U. S. Army less

John Adams was a 1st Lt. in the Regimental Dragoons of the U.S. Army. After secession of Tennessee he resigned his commission and joined the Confederate Army where he attained the rank of Brigadier General. . U.S. Army pay voucher dated 31 July 1856 less

Collection consists of Quartermaster Department report forms completed by U.S. Army units, dated 1865. Reports for the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, in camp near Richmond, Virginia, comprise monthly returns of "clothing, camp, and garrison equipage" for April and May 1865, with a cover letter to Quartermaster General M. C. Meigs by Lieutenant James Smith, dated June 1, 1865. A report of "persons and articles hired" at Nashville for the 6th Wisconsin Battery in January 1865 is filled out in duplicate, listing teamsters Robert Morton and Albert Rittenhouse. It is accompanied by a descriptive list noting their transfer in February 1865. One of the duplicate reports bears a United States Sanitary Commission date stamp of Nov. 11, 1865 less

Orderly book of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army, dated July 2-September 25, 1779, kept at Danfords, New Windsor, "Moore's House," and elsewhere in Connecticut. Records general orders, courts martial, and other information. Signed on flyleaf by John Mix, 2nd Connecticut Regiment less

Head Quarters letter book of the Confederate Army Light Infantry Division under the command of Major General Ambrose Powell Hill and Major General Henry Heth respectively (June 6, 1862-June 1, 1863). The letters relate to routine counter charges of Major Generals Hill and Heath and include letters and reports from Hill, Heth, Major R. C. Morgan, and other Confederate officers. The volume also contains two printed general orders from Adjutant and Inspector General S. Cooper (January 5 and 7, 1863) less

Daybook from Greenville, Ohio, showing accounts with United States Army officers between 1794 and 1797, including General Anthony Wayne, General James Wilkinson, Colonel J. F. Hamtramck, Captain Zebulon Pike, and Lieutenant William Henry Harrison. Entries in the daybook give costs of liquors, food, clothing, general supplies, and costs to transport the goods. Daybook may possibly have been kept by a sutler with the Army less

Orderly book labeled "Headquarters, New York City," and dated July 20, 1812 to September 7, 1812. The book mainly contains the orders of Captain Charles Kitchell Gardner as Brigade Major of the U. S. Army 3rd Artillery, detailing troop movements, discipline, and relations between U. S. Army and local militia for the defense of New York City less

The Army of the Potomac Archives, 1862-1865, document the Sanitary Commission's relief work in support of Union armies on campaign in Virginia, from the winter of 1862-1863 to the closing of the USSC’s base at City Point in June, 1865. The establishment of the USSC’s Field Relief Corps and Auxiliary Relief Corps, and USSC operations during Grant’s Overland Campaign and the siege of Petersburg and Richmond are especially well represented. Earlier relief work at Harrison’s Landing during the 1862 Peninsular Campaign is also documented. less

Details of uniforms and equipment of the British army, 1742-1881, collected by Samuel M. Milne of Leeds, England ca. 1913. Includes specimens of cloth, braid, and other material, mounted, with descriptive notes in manuscript, colored sketches, photographs, drawings, and letters relating to the specimens less

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia. less