8 x 12 1/4, imprinted form, filled out in ink. Application of Discharged Soldier for Additional Bounty. State of Michigan, County of Genesee, On this 18th day of March A.D. 1870, personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid, James M. Williams, of Flushing in the County of Genesee and State of Michigan personally known to me, who being duly sworn according to law, that he is a resident of Flushing, County of Genesee, State of Michigan, and that he is the identical James M. Williams who enlisted as a Private in Co....  

Signed by their Lieutenant Colonel who was twice wounded during the war! Also signed by Lieutenant who was wounded at Petersburg, Va.

8 x 10 1/2, imprinted form, filled out in ink. Special Requisition, For Co. H, 36th Mass. Vols., for articles of clothing, camp & garrison equipage received, In the Field, in April 1865. Itemized list includes forage caps, flannel sack coats, infantry trowsers, shirts, drawers, bootees, stockings, woolen blanket, rubber blankets, knapsacks, great coat straps, canteens, and brass letters. These items were...  

4 3/4 x 7 3/4, imprint.

Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, Nashville, Tenn., March 28, 1864. General Orders, No. 4.
Captain Montgomery Rochester, Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers is assigned to duty in the Adjutant General's Department at these Head Quarters and will be respected accordingly. By order of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman. R.M. Sawyer, Assistant Adjutant General. Light age toning and 2 small cuts in the paper at left edge where this order was once bound in an officers order book. This does not affect any of the...  

31 x 21, two sided, imprinted form, filled out in ink. Muster Roll of Captain Frederick Niegemann's, Company D, 17th Regiment Missouri Volunteers. Itemized account for 63 officers and men. Each soldier is listed by name, and rank; states where they enlisted, and by whom; by whom they were last paid and the date; how much their bounty was; and in the remarks section there are such comments as; absent on leave, date of a commission, on recruiting service, on guard in Lebanon, left sick in Springfield, Mo., sick in Rolla, Mo., on extra duty as wagoneer, sick...  

Signed by officer wounded twice during the war!

7 3/4 x 10, in ink. A List of Deserters from Co. D, 105 P.[ennsylvania] V.[olunteers]. Name: Franklin Livingston. Rank: Private. Date of Desertion: Jany. 1863. Supposed Whereabouts: Houston Township, Clearfield Co., Pa. Remarks: Franklin Livingston was left sick at Belhmore Roads, Va., about May 21, 1862, was taken by the Rebels after the retreat of the army from Richmond, paroled & sent North, exchanged & went to his home in Clearfield Co. where he now is by whose authority I know not. The...  

Four Union privates are sentenced to be shot to death by musketry!

8 1/3 pages, 4 1/2 x 7 imprint.

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, July 22, 1863

Details the charges, specifications, and sentences of four individual court martial cases against privates in the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, 140th New York Infantry, and 8th New York Cavalry respectively. Each soldier was found guilty of the various charges brought against him, and was sentenced to be shot to death by musketry at such...  

Signed by Captain Conser who was captured at Bristoe Station, Va., was wounded at three different battles including Gettysburg, and was killed in action at Boydton Plank Road, Va. in 1864!

8 1/4 x 11, two sided imprinted form, filled out in ink. Invoice of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores turned over by Captain John C. Conser, to Captain James Miller, in the field in Virginia, on August 24, 1864. The list includes .58 caliber Springfield rifled muskets, bayonet scabbards, cap pouches, .58 caliber cartridge boxes, cartridge box plates, cartridge...  

For deceased soldier

8 x 13, imprinted form, filled out in ink. Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, March 10, 1864. I certify, That I have examined and adjusted the claim of Thomas C. Strong, Decd., Private Co. C, 33 Mo. Vols. and find there is due him from the United States the sum of Ninety Seven dollars and Fifty Three cents, being for Pay from May 1 to June 22/63 and $100.00 Bounty Per Act, July 22/61, less $25.00 in advance as appears by the account and vouchers herewith transmitted for the decision of the Second Comptroller...  

7 3/4 x 9 3/4, in ink.

Office Chief of Artillery, Morris Island, S.C., Aug. 21, 1864. Captain D.B. Churchill, Comdg. Col.[umbiad] & Mortar Batteries. Captain: The Colonel Commanding directs that you send to this office daily at 7 P.M., a written report of the number of shots fired from the Batteries under your command during the previous twenty four hours, the calibre of the guns used, and the objects at which they were fired. You will also report whatever of interest takes place in your Batteries, such as bursting guns, mounting or dismounting...  

7 3/4 x 10, in ink. Hd. Qrs. Dept. of Washn., 22d A.[rmy] Corps, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6th/64. Major S. Breck, Asst. Adjt. Genl. Sir: Will you please grant authority to muster out of the service viz. the mustering officer of this Dept., Pvt. J.S. Lockwood, Co. A, 13th Mass. Infty. who has been on special service at these Hd. Qrs. since December 1863, by order of the War Dept. (S.O. 580/63). His Regt. was mustered out of the service on Monday last (Aug. 1st) at Boston. I am Major, Very Respectfully, Your Obdt. Servt.,...  

2 1/4 pages, 7 3/4 x 10, in ink, on imprinted letter sheet.

Treasury Department, Comptrollers Office, September 7, 1864. Jacob H. Ela, Esq. U.S. Marshal, Rochester, N.[ew] Hamp.[shire] Sir: I have received your letter of 25th ulto. explaining suspended charges and asking information respecting fees of Govt. officers who attend Court as witnesses on behalf of the U.[nited] States. In reply I refer you to the pertinent clause in the Fee bill of 1853; and add, that in my opinion no employee of the Government whose travel and time while going to,...  

Grain and hay are positively prohibited from being exported out of Tennessee!

5 x 7 3/4, imprint.

Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, Nashville, Tenn., July 13, 1864. General Orders, No. 20. I. The grain and hay raised in the State of Tennessee being required for the use of the Army, its exportation from the State is positively prohibited. II. The Quartermaster's Department will purchase the grain and hay required for consumption by the Army. By order of Major General W.T. Sherman. R.M. Sawyer, Assistant Adjutant...