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Title: A telegraph message concerning the replacement of engineering tools
Creator: Michie, Peter Smith, 1839-1901
Date Created: 1865-03-31
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces, Armed Forces--Equipment and supplies
Description: The telegram was sent by Peter S. Michie, who was acting chief engineer of the Army of the James, Headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina and addressed to James F. Hall.

Title: An order for the convening of a special court
Creator: Burger, W. L. M.
Date Created: 1864-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces, Courts-martial and courts of inquiry, Military law
Description: An order for a court of inquiry to convene at Beaufort, South Carolina on Tuesday, June 7th to review cases of Surgeon John Trevor and Assistant Surgeon H. M. Kirke. The court consists of Colonel M.S. Littlefield, Lieutenant Colonel James F. Hall,...

Title: Consolidated morning report on regimental composition
Date Created: 1862-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces, Armies--Organization, Armed Forces--Personnel management
Description: This report may have been about regimental composition at Fort Walker (also known as Fort Welles).

Title: Letter relating to ammunition at Fort Welles
Creator: Treadwell, T. J. (Thomas J.), 1831-1879
Date Created: 1862-08-01
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces, Ordnance, Military supplies, Armed Forces--Ordnance and ordnance stores
Description: This letter discusses guns and ammunition, including the columbiad cannon, at Forts Seward and Welles (also known as Fort Walker), and was signed by Union Ordnance Lieutenant and Chief T.J. Treadwell and Acting Brigadier General A. Williams.

Title: Letter relating to the recovery of lost property
Creator: Allen, Lewis C., -1864
Date Created: 1864-02-25
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces, Reed organ, War and society
Description: This letter is signed by Captain Lewis Allen and informs Lieutenant Colonel James F. Hall in the Provost Marshall's Office at Hilton Head that a melodeon taken by Union troops from Miss Margaret Clark in Jacksonville, Florida, was recovered in Bea...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Papers
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1826-09-09, 1872-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Farm management, Armies, Swearing, Enslavement
Description: Includes a certificate for militia duty, a marriage license (Photostat), correspondence (concerning typhus fever outbreak among enslaved individuals on the plantation), and a legal complaint by William Patterson against Thomas M. Alexander for pro...

Title: Post office circular describing restrictions on delivery of mail
Creator: Sears, Joseph H., 1836-1914
Date Created: 1862-03-01
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces, Letter mail handling, Armed Forces--Postal service
Description: A notice from Union Postmaster Joseph H. Sears as to restrictions and requirements for deliveries of mail to and from Union soldiers, sailors and marines. It states that postage must be prepaid and mail sent by or to be received by service personn...

Title: Richard Lee Clark papers concerning the Civil War
Creator: Clark, Richard Lee
Date Created: 1862, 1865
Subjects--Topical: Armies, Armed Forces
Description: A collection of Civil War documents relating to the daily operations of the Union Army at their camp at Port Royal, S.C.