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Displaying 74 Finding Aids
Title
- Records
Series Number
- A0107
Summary
- The series consists of a small quantity of correspondence, reports, rosters of commissioned officers, provision returns, special and general orders, reports, morning reports and related records concerning the Independent Corps, Light Infantry. The regiment, which was also known as the "Enfants Perdu" or "Lost Children," was initially mustered into federal service in 1862. The unit disbanded in 1864 when the enlisted men transferred to several regiments.
Creator
- New York (State). Militia Volunteers. Independent Corps, Light Infantry
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Civil War muster roll abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops
Series Number
- 13775
Summary
- This series consists of abstracts compiled from original muster rolls of New York State units that fought in the Civil War, including the 20th and 31st U.S. Colored Troops. For individual members, the data includes: date of enlistment; age (in years); place of enlistment and for how long; date mustered in; grade; company; regiment; date left organization; reason for leaving (killed, discharged, deserted, etc.); in what grade; explanation; and remarks.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Photographs of military campaign medals and marksmanship badges
Series Number
- A3355
Summary
- The series consists of twelve black and white photographs of service medals and brief textual summaries on marksmanship badges, describing their significance and history. The summaries were apparently copies from published Adjutant General's reports or other unidentified sources. The photographs may date from the 1940s and 1950s. Medals represented in the photographs are examples of those awarded to National Guardsmen, to veterans of the Mexican Punitive Campaign, and to survivors of Southern prison camps during the Civil War.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Roster of officers of New York State Volunteer regiments
Series Number
- A4152
Summary
- This bound volume contains the names of officers of the First through Thirteenth Regiments of New York State Volunteers during the Civil War. The information is duplicated in Frederick Phisterer, <emph render="italic">New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865</emph> and in State Archives series 13775, Civil War muster roll abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Telegrams received
Series Number
- A4147
Summary
- This volume contains incoming telegrams received by the Surgeon General's Office between April 26, 1861 and November 26, 1864. The telegrams deal with administrative matters such as the examination of regiments, disbursement of medical supplies, appointments of regimental surgeons, and the disposition of wounded soldiers received at New York City and Albany.
Creator
- New York (State). Surgeon General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Registers recording the transmission of documents from the Adjutant General's Office to Militia officers
Series Number
- A4153
Summary
- This series consists of portions of two volumes recording the names of militia officers to whom various types of forms and other printed material were sent by the Adjutant General's Office. Types of records sent include regulations, enlisting orders, Adjutant General's reports, manuals of arms, inspection returns, legislative laws pertaining to the militia, and certificates of membership.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Administrative correspondence files
Series Number
- A4100
Summary
- This series consists mainly of incoming correspondence directed or forwarded to the Inspector General's Office. The files are routine in nature and deal with such topics as the construction and repair of state armories, inspection of troops at depots and recruiting stations and review of various claims. These records are only a small part of this office's correspondence files; there are many gaps.
Creator
- New York (State). Inspector General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts submitted by local officials detailing monies raised and expended and men furnished during the Civil War
Series Number
- A4114
Summary
- This series consists of various types of printed forms, reports, incoming correspondence, lists of men who were mustered into the service of the United States government, and an assortment of printed material submitted by local officials to the Bureau of Military Statistics between 1863 and 1868. The records were initially compiled pursuant to Chapter 113, Laws of 1863 which required the Bureau of Military Statistics, in addition to other duties, to "collect and preserve...an account of the aid afforded by the several towns and counties of this state." In 1865 (Chapter 690), the Legislature further specified the type of information which the bureau was to collect.
Creator
- New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Assorted printed material
Series Number
- A4129
Summary
- This series consists of printed material collected by the Bureau of Military Statistics dealing with a variety of topics, including procedures to collect bounty payments, soldiers' relief funds, presidential politics, the duties of inspectors of elections, materials relating to the State of New Jersey during the Civil War, and the thanksgiving proclamation issued by Governor Horatio Seymour in November 1863. These printed materials were most likely collected by the bureau while trying to collect anything related to the Civil War.
Creator
- New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Abstracts of vouchers certified by the governor
Series Number
- A4205
Summary
- This volume contains abstracts of vouchers pertaining to the support of the state's military at the outset of the Civil War. Each entry provides date, voucher number, description, and amount. The bulk of the series pertains to three million dollars appropriated to raise and equip 30,000 troops for federal service with vouchers for rations, bedding, eating utensils, uniforms, arms, equipment, and transportation costs. Other accounts relate to purchase of arms and equipment for the state's militia, for military hospital supplies, for quartering costs, and for personnel in the military bureaucracy.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor (1859-1862 : Morgan)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Letter book
Series Number
- A4133
Summary
- This volume contains mainly outgoing correspondence from the Inspector General's Office. There are also special and general orders, some incoming correspondence, and reports directed to or issued by the Inspector General's Office. Of particular concern was the inspection of armories, arsenals, and military storehouses; the inspection of military property issued to National Guard units; and the auditing of accounts. This letter book pertains to matters dealing with the state's National Guard rather than volunteer units raised during the Civil War.
Creator
- New York (State). Inspector General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Emancipation Proclamation Centennial motion picture film
Series Number
- B0309
Summary
- This series consists of a master film and soundtrack of the ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. commemorating the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Series also includes a memorandum describing the film's contents and an additional short film segment showing James E. Allen, Commissioner of Education, dedicating the Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation before a crowd in the rotunda of the State Education Building.
Creator
- New York Civil War Centennial Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Records
Series Number
- A0195
Summary
- This series consists of descriptive lists, correspondence, extracts of courts martial, discharges, furloughs, special orders, general orders, receipts, invoices, quarterly returns of ordnance stores, and muster out rolls. Most of these documents deal with Company B of Regiment 2 of the Militia Volunteers. Contained within the series is one pre-war letter (1856) written from Joseph B. Hazen, who later served as a captain with Company B, to his father.
Creator
- New York (State). Militia Volunteers. Regiment, 2nd. Company B
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- National Guard regimental and brigade files of Brigadier General James Gibson
Series Number
- A3283
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence, special and general orders, morning reports, descriptive lists, and ordnance returns pertaining to commands held by Brigadier General James Gibson in the state's National Guard. The bulk of the series post-dates the Civil War and concerns Gibson's command of the 12th Brigade of the Third Division. The series also contains a small amount of material concerning Gibson's command of the 30th New York State National Guard between 1862 and 1865.
Creator
- New York (State). National Guard. Brigade, 12th
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Detailed estimates and location maps for proposed construction of gun boat locks on the Western Division of the Erie Canal
Series Number
- B0675
Summary
- This is a series of location maps and illustrated estimates of raw materials and quantities of excavated material for proposed construction of gun boat locks on the western division of the Erie Canal. The maps show the location of proposed locks; the new and existing canal channels; towpath; existing canal structures; properties, bodies of water, or buildings near the canal; state-owned land; property boundaries; names of land owners; and acreage.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Certificates of appointment and general and special orders
Series Number
- A0172
Summary
- This series consists of printed copies of general and special orders issued by the Adjutant General's Office between 1861 and 1862. The series also contains a small quantity of certificates of enrollment issued to state militia officers in 1864. Finally, this series contains a small quantity of correspondence of Adjutant General William Fuller dating between 1823 and 1824.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- Restricted due to fragile condition resulting from burn damage. Use under supervision of an archivist.
Title
- Assorted records
Series Number
- A4117
Summary
- The New York State Soldiers Depot was established to be a place of rest and relief for sick, sounded, furloughed, and discharged New York soldiers during the Civil War. This series includes correspondence, descriptive rolls for individual soldiers, receipts for claims, inventories of the depot's kitchen and dining room, discharge papers, receipts for official records received from the Adjutant-General's Office, certificates of enlistment, matron's reports, list of depot expenditures, receipts for work performed at the depot, and furloughs.
Creator
- New York State Soldiers' Depot
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Inspector General's Office copies of correspondence forwarded from the Governor's Office
Series Number
- A4103
Summary
- This series consists of copies of incoming correspondence directed to Governor Edwin D. Morgan, originally found in Inspector General's administrative correspondence files. The Executive Chamber probably forwarded these copies to the Inspector General in order to keep him informed of current events or because they dealt with matters which required his attention. One of the Inspector General's major responsibilities was to attend to the organization of the militia, which is what the bulk of this correspondence is concerned with.
Creator
- New York (State). Inspector General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Abstract of military commissions issued
Series Number
- 13728
Summary
- This series provides abstracts of military commissions of officers in the New York State Militia, later National Guard. Information includes: officer's name; office; regiment, brigade or division number; residence; date of commission; and date of rank. Volumes twelve and thirteen of accretion 13728-83 relate to the Civil War commissions.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- National Guard records
Series Number
- A0563
Summary
- This series consists of a variety of records that relate mainly to the 14th New York State Militia; the 23rd New York National Guard; and the 12th New York National Guard. The bulk of the records post-date the Civil War but a significant portion, especially those pertaining to the 14th New York State Militia, document Civil War-related activities.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.