American Historical Ephemera & Photography

A group of 4 documents associated with regiments from Maine: letter from Major George G. Hastings, Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac, Office of the Judge Advocate, to General S. Williams, 29 July 1864, discussing the legal case of Sergeant George S. Henderson of the 6th Maine Battery who was charged with desertion;  letter from Major George G. Hastings, Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac, Office of the Judge Advocate, to General S. Williams, 5 August 1864, discussing the retrial of the 6th Maine's Sergeant George S. Henderson's for desertion, accompanied by docket wrapper signed my a multitude of staff officers and with a synopsis of the trial of Henderson; "Special Requisition" for clothing dated near Potomac Creek, VA, 9 March 1863, and signed by Colonel Hiram Burnham, 6th Maine Volunteers; and 13th Maine "Invoice of Clothing, Camp, and Garrison Equipage," 11 August 1864. 

[With:] 45th Massachusetts extra duty roster, Camp Army on Trent [North Carolina], 26 November 1862, listing several men reporting to the Quartermaster's Department, one to the hospital as Wardmaster, and four others assigned as nurses. -- Autograph letter signed by General William S. Abert, Head Quarters Rockville Expedition, Opposite Harpers Ferry, to 1st New New Hampshire regiment. 5 July 1861. Abert indicates that 5 companies will be sent with equipment to Sandy Hook. -- Partly printed pay voucher for Sergeant William H. Barnes, Co. E, 2nd NH Cavalry. 16 September 1864. 

[Also with:] Discharge for disability granted to Private Samuel B. Locklin, 13 January 1863 by reason of "Surgeon's Certificate of Disability." -- "Form No. 5" indicating receipt of pay and travel allotment by Private Samuel B. Locklin, discharged from Co. E, 2nd Regiment of Sharp Shooters.  Locklin, a shoemaker from Jericho, Vermont, enlisted on 10/30/1861 as a private and mustered into Co. E, 2nd US Sharpshooters.