Army Units, 1861-1865

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2 boxes; 303 items

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Papers, dated 1861-1865, 72 items, of the Army of Mississippi relate to ordnance, supply, medicine, scouting, furloughs, signals, casualties, paroled federal prisoners, organization, transportation, and cotton. Persons mentioned include N.A. Birge, Adolph Dies, William Joseph Hardee, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Thomas Jordan. There are references to Mississippi cavalry, the 17th and 18th Louisiana Volunteer Regiments, Daniel Ruggles' Division, the Partisan Rangers, and the Washington (Louisiana) Artillery. Battles mentioned include Farmington, Mississippi, 1862, and Shiloh. Papers of the Army of Northern Virginia, dated 1862-1865, 25 items and 1 vol., are mainly miscellaneous orders. For the Army of Tennessee, 16 items and 1 vol., dated 1862-1865, there are miscellaneous orders and letters relating to furloughs, military life, supplies, organization of the artillery; also a dispatch book, including many dispatches, November and December, 1864, from John B. Hood to Beauregard, concerning the battle of Franklin and Union cavalry raids at Greenville and Pollard, Alabama. For the Department of Richmond, 1864, 2 items, there are conscription notices. Papers of the Department of South Carolina and Georgia, dated 1862-1865, 60 items, are largely orders of John C. Pemberton concerning surgeons, officers and their commands, discharges, publication of orders, the form of reports, courts-martial, supplies, and Beauregard's commands and inspections; there is also a memorandum on the condition of the fortifications on Sullivan's Island, April 6, 1864, by Roswell S. Ripley. For the District of the Gulf there is an order signed by Gen. Dabney H. Maury, dated 1864, concerning a detail for special duty. Relating to the Florida 8th Regiment of Volunteers are muster rolls, dated 1864, 9 items. For Georgia State Troops there are general orders for the 2nd Brigade and other units, dated 1861-1865, 33 items and 2 vols. Miscellaneous letters, reports, and orders concern various regiments of Louisiana, dated 1861-1863, 19 items and 1 volume. Records of North Carolina State Troops, dated 1861-1865, 36 items and 4 vols., concern the 2nd, 4th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 25th, 27th, 37th, and 66th Regiments, and contain letters, general orders, muster rolls, payrolls, requisitions for supplies, orders for movements, courts-martial, lists of veterans, lists of medical exemptions from duty, and a history of the 13th Regiment by H. C. Wall. For South Carolina State Troops, dated 1861-1864, 14 items and 1 vol., there are receipts for supplies and pay, letters, courts-martial papers, and an agreement of Lancaster District citizens to form a company of home guards which became Company A of the 9th South Carolina Infantry. Relating to Tennessee State Troops are rolls, 1 vol., dated 1861-1862, of the 3rd Regiment. For Virginia State Troops, dated 1861-1865, 2 items, there are lists of soldiers. For Wheeler's Cavalry Corps there are reports, 1865, 18 items, of Thomas Harrison's Brigade, Dibrell's Brigade, Iverson's Division, 11th Texas Cavalry, and 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, concerning transportation, ordnance, extra-duty rolls, medical and sanitary conditions, supplies, and lists of men.

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