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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02168 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents: Miscellaneous Dates |
| Title | Morning Report Book of Company G 1st Florida Volunteers |
| Date | 9 June 1862-30 March 1863 |
| Author | Leigh, John D. (fl. 1863) |
| Document Type | Military document; Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Covers a number of periods. Book was first used as a morning report book by Company G of the First Florida Volunteers in the summer of 1862. Counts number of present and absent members of the company and gives their rank. Used from 9 June 1862 through 27 August 1862, by the end of which period over a third of the men have become sick. The second part consists of similar morning reports from 13 December 1862 through 28 February 1863. Captain John D. Leighs is listed as the commanding officer. The reports now include company H as well, and are now signed by various officers, including Leigh. In these reports close to half the men are absent due to sickness. The back of the book contains a list of names of the men in the company and the supplies they possessed. List was written 30 March 1863 at Tullahoma, Tennessee. Items includes muskets, bayonets, scabbards, knapsacks, canteens, screw drivers, and other equipment. Document was then found by a Union soldier, John H. Ordway of New Hampshire. He writes in the back of the book "July 17 1863 Found this book to Day." This was during the Tullahoma campaign. Ordway died the next year. Someone then used the middle of the book to record various personal business transactions between 1867 and 1870. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Muster Rolls and Returns Health and Medical Confederate States of America Military Supplies Weaponry Union Forces Battle Finance |
| People | Leigh, John D. (fl. 1863) |
| Place written | Various |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Banking & Economics; Merchants & Commerce |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Western Theater |
| Civil War: Unit | 1st Florida Volunteers, G Company |