Manuscript Group 7
MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
1758-1931
5 cu. ft.
Miscellaneous private papers relating to the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary
War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection,
World War I, the Pennsylvania National Guard, and peacetime military service.
Included are records of individual service, along with related correspondence,
and records of militia units and these regiments of Pennsylvania volunteers:
- 7th, 11th, 12th, 16th 17th, 29th, 42nd, 46th, 47th, 60th (3rd Pennsylvania
Calvary)
- 63rd, 70th (6th Pennsylvania Cavalry), 72nd, 76th, 78th, 79th, 80th (7th
Pennsylvania Cavalry)
- 82nd, 87th, 89th (8th Pennsylvania Cavalry)
- 92nd (9th Pennsylvania Cavalry)
- 93rd, 107th, 117th (13th Pennsylvania Cavalry)
- 127th, 129th, 30th, 131st, 136th, 138th, 148th, 173rd, 182nd (21st Pennsylvania
Cavalry)
- 190th, 94th, and 202nd
- Jacob Neyhart Papers for Company I, 202nd PVI containing enlistment papers
for Lewisberg and vicinity, ca. August 1864, one muster in and one muster
out roll, garrison equipage returns, clothing returns, consolidated monthly
reportdeath certificates inventory of articles, descriptive list, furlough
papers, ordnance returns and quartermaster's stores.
Collection contains the following letters:
- Mrs. Paul W. Bartlett to Governor Robert E. Pattison, on the subject of
national peace, on behalf of a women's peace, 1886
- William John Blyth to Colonel James Burd concerning forwarding supplies
to Red Stone Creek and Pittsburg, 1759
- William Denny, directive regarding supplies (wagons) needed by General Forbes,
1758
- Governor William Denny to Major Burd gives orders on how to defend Fort
Augusta and Halifax, 1759
- Matthew Dill to John Nicholson, controller general, Philadelphia, 1791
- Captain Rawleigh Downman, Fort Howe, to General Lachlan McIntosh, 1777
- Muster Roll for Col. Henry Spicker's Battalion, Berks County, November 17,
1777
- List of Delinquents in Col. Henry Spicker's Battalion, ca. 1777-2778
- Letter from Jacob Morgan to Col. Henry Spicker, July 16, 1778
- Samuel Hunter, Sunbury, to Brigadier General Edward Hand, as to the recruitment
and payment of soldiers, 1779,
- Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg, perhaps to Marquis de Lafayette, concerning
correspondence of Baron von Steuben and the transport of troops to Richmond,
1781
- James O'Hara to Major General Anthony concerning military supplies, 1796
- M. S. Quay to W. H. Richards, 1900
- Joseph Reed, president, Supreme Executive Council, to commissary general
of purchases and horses, 1779
- Ceasar Rodney to Colonel Thomas Rodney mentioning British evacuation of
Charlestown, 1782
- W. M. R. (otherwise unidentified), Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, to
"My Dear Sallie," commenting on British foreign policy and on the
abilities of General McClellan, 1862
- General Arthur St. Clair to "The Contractors at Lancaster," pertaining
to the arrival of certain Pennsylvania troops to be quartered at Lancaster,
1783
- General Charles Scott, camp near Bedford, to"Sir," regarding wagons,
forage, etc., 1778
- Jacob Stroud to John Nicholson, 1789
- John K. Tener to Mark Richards, 1910
- General Anthony Wayne, Charleston, payment for officers' entertainment,
1783
- James Wilkinson, Frankfort, to General Arthur St. Clair, 1791
- G. Wilson to Colonel James Wilson discusses moving his unit away from their
homes on the western frontier, 1959
- Herman Zedwitz (copies) to General Washington and General Robert Howe, 1777.
Other items include:
- Constitution and by-laws of the Logan Guards, a Mifflin county volunteer
militia company, with signatures of members and attendance roll, 1859-61,
1 vol.
- Constitution of the National Blues of Portsmouth, organized in 1851, containing
lists of members, minutes of meetings, 1853, and agreement of members, 1861,
to hold themselves in readiness to fight in the Civil War, 1 vol.
- Enlistment certificates, Stoystown (Somerset County) Volunteers, 1864, 12
items general orders, Pennsylvania Militia, as signed by Governor Simon Snyder,
1814, 3 items
- Letter book, 1st Regiment of Artillery, Pennsylvania Militia, Philadelphia,
1843-45, 1 vol.
- "List of Soldiers (Prisoners of War), Belonging to Pennsylvania Regiments,
who Died at the Military Prison, at Andersonville, Georgia From February 26,
1864, to March 24, 1865," submitted to Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin by
Joseph A. Phillips, Surgeon General, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1865, 1 item
- Minutes of courts martial, 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, Pennsylvania Militia,
held at the borough of Northampton, 1814-15, 1 vol., and records of courts
martial and fines, Northampton, Northampton County, and Strasburg, Lancaster
County, 1815, 1 vol., both approved and signed by Governor Simon Snyder
- Orderly book, 1st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, including reports of
courts martial, 1780, 1 vol.
- Receipt book, Captain Joel Bailey, Brigade Inspector, 1st Brigade, 6th Division,
Pennsylvania Militia, 1822-35, 1 vol.
- Receipt book, Captain James Grier, 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, 1776-79,
1 vol.
- Receipt book, Thomas Horrell, Brigade Inspector, 10th Division, 1st Brigade,
Pennsylvania Militia, 1821-23, 1 vol.
- Report on Presque Isle Harbor, Erie, by J. H. Simpson, lieutenant, U.S.
Topographical Engineers, sent to Captain W. G. Williams, general superintendent,
U.S. Topographical Engineers, Buffalo, New York, 1841, 1 item.
- Photograph album of the 8th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, related to their stateside Spanish-American War service, encampments, and Philadelphia's Peace Jubilee. Includes many images of African American men, women and children likely taken while the 8th was encamped in Virginia or Georgia. Item #487.
- Military Manuscripts, 1758-1931. (15 boxes) {#7m.1}
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