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Captain James Charlton's Infantry Order Book
Collection
Identifier: SC 01228
Scope and Contents
Dealer Description: Orderly Book from Captain James Charlton's Company, 12th United States Infantry, during the War of 1812. Records muster rolls, returns, morning reports in one section and regimental, brigade and divisional general orders in another section. Capt. Charlton's company was recruited primarily from the back county of Virginia (43 soldiers), Pennsylvania (6), Maryland (4), and North Carolina (11). Against the name of each soldier is recorded his home...
Dates:
1813-1815
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
James Patton Preston Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 01771
Content Description
A three page letter sent from James Patton Preston to his brother. In the letter, Preston complains that he has been ordered by Colonel Parker to stay and recruit men for the 12th and 20th regiments, a task he finds "vastly troublesome." Preston follows this by mentioning two men with whom his brother is acquainted are traveling under secrecy, and that the news Preston and his brother delivered earlier has proven to be true. News he states is "destroying the confidence of men in the...
Dates:
September 15th, 1812
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
War in the Lower Chesapeake and Hampton Road Areas 1812-1815
Collection
Identifier: SC 01227
Scope and Contents
Typed carbon transcript of transcription by John C. Emmerson, Jr. of Portsmouth, Virginia entitled, "War in the Lower Chesapeake and Hampton Roads Areas, 1812-1815, as Reported in The Norfolk Gazette & Public Ledger and The Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald." 189 pages plus an index. 1946.
Dates:
1946
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center