Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
The majority of these records are comprised of contracts and correspondence relating to the purchase and repair of military equipment such as weapons and ammunition for use by the state militia. These account listings track the existing and expected stores of such equipment. Accounts largely pertain .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of an annotated, manuscript copy of the minutes of meetings of the State Military Examining Board held between January 20 and February 28, 1874. Entries in the minutes provide name and rank of officer being examined, accusations against or other reasons for his appearance before .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of handwritten abstracts of expenditures which, for the most part, detail the names, grades, positions, and salaries paid to individuals serving in the Military Department. Other abstracts provide information on ordnance distributed to various units but these are few in number and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A4126
Dates:
1869-1880
Abstract:
This series includes manuscript drafts of New York State Adjutant General Franklin Townsend's annual reports to the governor for the years 1876, 1877, and 1878. The series also includes various fiscal documents, likewise drafted for inclusion in the annual reports. Such documents primarily relate to .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
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, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 and in State Archives series 13775, Civil War muster roll .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
This brief series of four pages documents individuals who were assessed fines for delinquent behavior while in the New York State Militia. Fines could be levied against militiamen for a variety of delinquent behaviors, among them: not appearing at a regimental parade or place of rendezvous when summoned; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
7
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
The series consists of a company/regimental orderly book for the 2nd Regiment New York State Artillery, which was stationed in New York City during the War of 1812. It shows the day by day activities of the organization..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of National Guard parade returns for the Uniform Fund, arranged chronologically and therein by unit. The returns are bundled, and a finding aid describes each bundle's contents..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
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Series:
A4132
Dates:
1897-1908
Abstract:
These scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from various American as well as international newspapers, and document military operations in the Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, and Philippine-American Wars, as well as the 1905 Russian Revolution..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A4153
Dates:
1858-1863
Abstract:
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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A4166
Dates:
1861-1865
Abstract:
These four volumes contain descriptive lists; names and addresses of ex-members of the regiment; and general and special orders..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
For each letter received, these registers provide date of receipt; sender's name; file number assigned; addressee's name, place, and date of writing; disposition; and a one line summary of the contents. These volumes serve as the name index to a portion of the correspondence and petitions files in Series .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of general orders issued by the adjutant general and commanding officers to direct those under their command. General orders apply to all members of a command and usually concern policy or administrative matters. The general orders deal with numerous topics pertinent to New York .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A0227
Dates:
1863-1865
Abstract:
These two volumes contain membership and attendance information for Battery C of the First New York Artillery. Volume one lists all battery members, followed by those members absent for various reasons. Volume two includes totals of men present for duty; on special, extra, or daily duty; sick; in arrest .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of a partial name index to series 13775, Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts of New York Volunteers. It does not include the names of men who served in the United States Colored Troops whose muster roll abstracts are included in series 13775. Each entry consists of name and regimental .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
B1833
Dates:
circa 1900
Abstract:
This series consists of a typewritten name index to State Archives series B0800, Abstracts of muster rolls of Militia or National Guard units mustered into federal service during the Civil War, created by staff of the Adjutant General's Office. Each entry consists of name and regimental unit..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A4125
Dates:
1861-1890
Abstract:
This series consists of a small quantity of resignations, submitted by officers resigning their commissions, forwarded to the Adjutant General's Office. The resignation will normally provide the name of the individual resigning, rank, regiment, date, and reason for resignation. The remainder of the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
18
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A4145
Dates:
1809-1850
Abstract:
This series consists of two volumes of outgoing correspondence sent from the Adjutant General's office to officers of New York militia units, other military personnel, and Governors Daniel D. Tompkins and William L. Marcy. A significant amount of correspondence covers Governor Tompkins's effort to mobilize .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Abstract:
These two volumes describe New York State Militia units by location during the 1840s and 1850s. It is likely that a portion of the series was generated in response to Chapter 270 of the Laws of 1846, which stipulated that all able-bodied white male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Title:
Series:
A4155
Dates:
1862
Abstract:
These two volumes record the names, ages, and occupations of men liable to military duty who lived in Tonawanda and Buffalo's first ward. They also note those individuals who were exempt from the enrollment due to occupation, age, mental capacity, physical fitness, or present military status..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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