New York State Regiments--Administrative Documents

Image of an administrative document, 117th New York Regiment

Administrative Document

Description

This collection consists of administrative documents related to the operations of several Civil War regiments from Oneida County, New York (mainly the 117th Infantry Regiment). It includes such items as special orders, equipment requests, expense reports, transportation reports, prisoner lists, guard duty schedules, a letter of resignation, and returns of clothing and weapons.


Inventory

This collection includes digitized images and transcriptions of the 53 hand-written documents. The images are accessed through links within the transcriptions.



(more place names to be added soon, Fall/2010)

The 117th NYSV Infantry Regiment mustered in on February 18, 1862 in Oneida county, New York in which Hamilton College is located.

Digitization

These documents were digitized by Backstage Library Works of Orem, Utah at 600 dpi, saved as uncompressed TIFF. They delivered to Hamilton College the TIFF images and JPEG derivatives.

Transcriptions

Transcriptions of the documents were made by Backstage Library Works who also encoded them as TEI P5 files.

Credits

Digitization of this collection was made possible by grants from the New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program through CLRC (Central New York Library Resources Council).

Christian Goodwillie, Director of Special Collections and Archives
E-mail: cgoodwil@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4447

Special Collections
Burke Library
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323