TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Historical Note
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Series I: Orders, 1863-1865
Series II: Invoices and receipts, 1863-1865
Series III: Correspondence, 1861-1880
Series IV: Clothing and ephemera
|
Guide to the Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company
G. Records, 1861-1880
|
|
|
|
|
Creator |
United States. Army. Rhode
Island Heavy Artillery Regiment, 5th (1863-1865). Company
G |
|
Title |
Rhode Island Artillery, 5th
Regiment, Company G. Records |
|
Dates: |
1861-1880 |
|
Abstract: |
Records of the Rhode
Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G., dated 1863-1865, including general
orders, correspondence, invoices of clothing and other equipment, quartermaster
store receipts, and muster rolls. Also includes papers related to the career of
Capt. John H. Robinson, dating 1861-1880. |
|
ID |
MS 253 |
|
Extent |
1.5 cu. ft. |
|
Language |
Materials are in English. |
|
Repository: |
Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University,
Houston, TX |
Company G of the 5th Regiment, Rhode Island
Artillery, served in the Union Army during the United States Civil War
(1861-65), during which time its members were stationed for some time near New
Berne, North Carolina. The records in this collection provide names of those
serving in the Company, various types of equipment and clothing issued, and
methods used for provisioning of supplies and tracking of expenditures.
Return to the Table of Contents
The Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G Records measure 1.5
cubic feet and are arranged in one document case and one oversize map folder.
The collection contains correspondence dating from 1861-1880, including Orders
and Special Orders issued at New Berne, North Carolina; invoices and receipts
of clothing and equipment; and papers of one Captain John H. Robinson,
recording his muster into the First Regiment of the Rhode Island Detached
Militia in April 1861 as a private, his rise to the rank of captain, and
evidence of his activities as a civilian in 1873 and 1880.
Return to the Table of Contents
Access Restriction
This material is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish materials from this item must be obtained from the
Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
Return to the Table of Contents
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subjects (Persons) |
|
|
Robinson, John
H. |
|
Subjects (Organizations) |
|
|
United States. Army. Rhode
Island Heavy Artillery Regiment, 5th (1863-1865). Company G |
|
Subjects (Places) |
|
|
United States History Civil
War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories |
|
Formats |
|
|
Correspondence |
|
|
|
Return to the Table of Contents
Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G, Records, 1861-1880, MS
253, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
Purchased from Mrs. Janet Messer (dealer) and received October 27,
1960.
Return to the Table of Contents
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Series I: Orders, 1863-1865 |
| box |
folder |
| 1 |
1 |
|
General Orders, 1863-65 |
|
2 |
|
Special Orders, 1863-65 |
Return to the Table of Contents
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Series II: Invoices and receipts, 1863-1865 |
| box |
folder |
| 1 |
3 |
|
Invoices of Clothing, Camp, and Garrison Equipage Turned
Over, 1863-65 |
|
4 |
|
Monthly and Quarterly Returns of Clothing, Camp, and
Garrison Equipage, 1863-65 |
|
5 |
|
Quartermaster Stores Receipts, 1863-65 |
|
6 |
|
Monthly Returns of Quartermaster Stores,
1863-65 |
|
7 |
|
Invoices, Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Turned Over,
1863-65 |
|
8 |
|
Ordnance Receipts for Issue, 1863-65 |
|
9 |
|
Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores,
1863-64 |
|
10 |
|
Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores,
1864-65 |
|
11 |
|
Ordnance Expenditures and Unserviceable Ordnance,
1863-65 |
Return to the Table of Contents
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Series III: Correspondence, 1861-1880 |
| box |
folder |
| 1 |
12 |
|
Correspondence, 1863-65 |
|
13 |
|
Correspondence with Quartermaster General's Office
(indicating receipt of reports), 1864-65 |
|
14 |
|
Correspondence with Ordnance Office, 1864-65 |
|
15 |
|
Papers of Capt. John H. Robinson, 1861-1880 |
Return to the Table of Contents
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Series IV: Clothing and ephemera |
| box |
folder |
| Map dr |
34 |
|
Clothing Rolls, 1863-64, containing name and rank or
specialty of soldier, items issued, and signatures of recipient and
witness. |
Return to the Table of Contents
|
