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Mississippi River Squadron Bound Order Book, 1861-1865

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 42

Mississippi River Squadron Bound Order Book, 1861-1865

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n. a.
Zuschlagspreis:
2.160 $
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One volume, 8 x 13 in., comprised of 73 documents, 48 printed circulars and orders, received by Acting Assistant Paymaster A.W. Pearson, and 25 manuscripts dating from October 19, 1861-August 27, 1865, concerning orders and policies of the Navy and Treasury departments, particularly relating to the Mississippi River Squadron, on such issues as provisions, clothing, and general stores; audits; salaries of officers and military personnel; enlistment records, records and payments of contrabands; expenses for food rations; etc. The manuscript items pertain to the same issues. Most of the manuscripts are letters sent from squadron paymasters to Pearson in his role as Acting Assistant Paymaster. Alexander W. Pearson (ca 1834-1898) was born in Ireland and moved to the United States as a child. Before the Civil War he worked as a carpenter. He entered the US Navy as an acting assistant paymaster on July 22, 1862, and served in the Mississippi River Squadron or the Western Gunboat Flotilla, spending part of the time on the hospital ship USS Red Rover. He mustered out of the service on February 24, 1866. After the war he lived in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked in manufacturing and was very active in the local Masonic order. He died of a heart condition. The USS Red Rover was the US Navy's first hospital ship. Originally a commercial side-wheel steamer, the vessel was built in Missouri in 1859 and was purchased in New Orleans in November 1861 by the Confederacy for a barracks ship. While the Red Rover was not armed, she did participate in the blockade of the Western Gunboat Flotilla of the Union Army on Island no. 10 in the Mississippi River, where she was damaged by the bombardment from the flotilla in March 15, 1862. The Red Rover was captured by Union forces when Island no. 10 fell on April 7, 1862. The vessel was subsequently refitted by the Union Army as a hospital ship and from June 1862 served the Mississippi Squadron in that capacity throughout the Civil War. The USS Red Rover was involved in the Vicksburg Campaign as well as the White River expedition. She was decommissioned in December 1865. One letter in the collection is General Order No. 31, dated January 17, 1863, and written out in hand on US Mississippi Squadron letterhead: On the first day of every month, the Commanders of all vessels will forward me a list of all contrabands on board at that time. The following ruled form, will be observed-viz. Name-Age-Date of appearance on board-Date of entry on ship's books-Rating-Pay-Employment-Remarks. The order was written in a secretarial hand but signed by Acting Rear Admiral David D. Porter. An example of the letters in the scrapbook to Pearson as acting assistant paymaster on the hospital ship, USS Red Rover, is one from late 1864 from E. W. Dunn, the Mississippi Squadron fleet paymaster. Written on the letterhead of Office Fleet Paymaster, US Mississippi Squadron, the order reads: When men, enlisted in the Naval Service since July 1, 1864, are transferred to you with the remark against their names ("Entitled to Bounty") you are authorized to credit them on your roll, with Bounty, as Specified by the act of Congress July 4th 1864 assuming in such cases that the Bounty Credit to which they are Entitled has not yet been given them. An earlier letter to Pearson, dated March 24, 1864, came from S.W.J. Tabor, an auditor in the Treasury Department, concerning pay for stewards on board the USS Red Rover. To your inquiry of the 15th inst. I reply, that the pay for all appointed Stewards, like the pay of Secretaries and Clerks, commences from the date when they leave their domicils [sic] in obedience to orders. When a Surgeons Steward is the sole medical officer on board, and is responsible for the medical stores under his charge, he is, by regulation, entitled to receive $40 a month from the date when and so long as he be in that position and no longer. If he have received an advance from the Navy Agent and die before he report, such a

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 42
Auktion:
Datum:
09.06.2017
Auktionshaus:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

One volume, 8 x 13 in., comprised of 73 documents, 48 printed circulars and orders, received by Acting Assistant Paymaster A.W. Pearson, and 25 manuscripts dating from October 19, 1861-August 27, 1865, concerning orders and policies of the Navy and Treasury departments, particularly relating to the Mississippi River Squadron, on such issues as provisions, clothing, and general stores; audits; salaries of officers and military personnel; enlistment records, records and payments of contrabands; expenses for food rations; etc. The manuscript items pertain to the same issues. Most of the manuscripts are letters sent from squadron paymasters to Pearson in his role as Acting Assistant Paymaster. Alexander W. Pearson (ca 1834-1898) was born in Ireland and moved to the United States as a child. Before the Civil War he worked as a carpenter. He entered the US Navy as an acting assistant paymaster on July 22, 1862, and served in the Mississippi River Squadron or the Western Gunboat Flotilla, spending part of the time on the hospital ship USS Red Rover. He mustered out of the service on February 24, 1866. After the war he lived in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked in manufacturing and was very active in the local Masonic order. He died of a heart condition. The USS Red Rover was the US Navy's first hospital ship. Originally a commercial side-wheel steamer, the vessel was built in Missouri in 1859 and was purchased in New Orleans in November 1861 by the Confederacy for a barracks ship. While the Red Rover was not armed, she did participate in the blockade of the Western Gunboat Flotilla of the Union Army on Island no. 10 in the Mississippi River, where she was damaged by the bombardment from the flotilla in March 15, 1862. The Red Rover was captured by Union forces when Island no. 10 fell on April 7, 1862. The vessel was subsequently refitted by the Union Army as a hospital ship and from June 1862 served the Mississippi Squadron in that capacity throughout the Civil War. The USS Red Rover was involved in the Vicksburg Campaign as well as the White River expedition. She was decommissioned in December 1865. One letter in the collection is General Order No. 31, dated January 17, 1863, and written out in hand on US Mississippi Squadron letterhead: On the first day of every month, the Commanders of all vessels will forward me a list of all contrabands on board at that time. The following ruled form, will be observed-viz. Name-Age-Date of appearance on board-Date of entry on ship's books-Rating-Pay-Employment-Remarks. The order was written in a secretarial hand but signed by Acting Rear Admiral David D. Porter. An example of the letters in the scrapbook to Pearson as acting assistant paymaster on the hospital ship, USS Red Rover, is one from late 1864 from E. W. Dunn, the Mississippi Squadron fleet paymaster. Written on the letterhead of Office Fleet Paymaster, US Mississippi Squadron, the order reads: When men, enlisted in the Naval Service since July 1, 1864, are transferred to you with the remark against their names ("Entitled to Bounty") you are authorized to credit them on your roll, with Bounty, as Specified by the act of Congress July 4th 1864 assuming in such cases that the Bounty Credit to which they are Entitled has not yet been given them. An earlier letter to Pearson, dated March 24, 1864, came from S.W.J. Tabor, an auditor in the Treasury Department, concerning pay for stewards on board the USS Red Rover. To your inquiry of the 15th inst. I reply, that the pay for all appointed Stewards, like the pay of Secretaries and Clerks, commences from the date when they leave their domicils [sic] in obedience to orders. When a Surgeons Steward is the sole medical officer on board, and is responsible for the medical stores under his charge, he is, by regulation, entitled to receive $40 a month from the date when and so long as he be in that position and no longer. If he have received an advance from the Navy Agent and die before he report, such a

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 42
Auktion:
Datum:
09.06.2017
Auktionshaus:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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