union brigadier general (2 Ergebnisse)

Folio, 3 pp. A printed form on three leaves, held together by the original pink ribbon. Docketed on the reverse of two of the leaves (with the army said to be 'At M Field'). In five columns: 'Date of Payment', 'Number of Voucher', 'To whom paid', 'On what account', and 'Amount' in 'Dollars' and 'Cts'. The first two columns left blank, and the last three completed in manuscript, comprising a numbered list of the names of sixty-five payees, reasons for payment and sums paid. The text is clear and complete, but the document is in fragile condition, on aged and chipped paper. 'Capt Charles M Walker' receives $7.50 for a 'Court Martial', 'Thos Calvin' receives $120 for being a 'Forage Master', 'LC Thos Kendall' receives $72.96 for 'Mileage', and 'James Anderson' receives '$17.14 for "Extra Duty'. The Colonel Andrew J. MacKay Letters and Papers, 1863-1865, are in the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville. According to the Library's catalogue entry Mackay's 'primary duty was to provide supplies to the cavalry soldiers in the region'. For more information about MacKay, see the on-line biography by Russ Dodge.

4to. 1 page, written on light blue paper. Folded, but very good (Hatch's signature a little faded). Jones and Hatch both served as junior officers in the Mexican War and on the frontier. Jones commanded a cavalry regiment under Stuart, received his promotion to brigadier general in September, 1862, and was killed leading his men at Piedmont in June, 1864; Hatch was given command of Banks's cavalry in the Shenandoah campaign of 1862 and was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at South Mountain.