Series 3: Government Military Records, 1855/1913

Scope and content:

Series 3: Government Military Records (1855-1913; approx. 9 cubic feet) is comprised of records produced in the United States of America (USA) and the Confederate States of America (CSA) during and related to the administration of the United States Civil War (1861–1865), including a small number of postwar records. Materials include orders, reports, muster rolls, requisitions, correspondence, broadsides, and financial transactions produced by commanding officers acting in their official capacity as leaders of military organizations (e.g., Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Daniel Ruggles, James Longstreet, and Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana). It also includes records created by military units (e.g., companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and corps) as well bureaucratic military leadership structures of the USA and CSA (e.g., the Quartermaster's Department and the Ordnance Office as well as the various departments, districts, and armies of strategic leadership). Also included are records from leading figures in the executive branches of government in the USA (e.g., President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton) and CSA (e.g., Jefferson Davis). Exceptions include a few groupings of personal papers, including the personal papers of John W. Hanscom of the 6th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment.

Arrangement:

Series 3 is arranged in the following subseries: Subseries A: Records of the United States Army (USA) and Subseries B: Records of the Confederate States Army (CSA). Materials are arranged alphabetically according to the organization that created or issued them and chronologically therein with materials or unknown provenance or attribution following in order of donor accession number (see Alphanumeric Designations in resource record).

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