(CIVIL WAR NEW HAMPSHIRE) Collection of general orders and

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Collection of general orders and reports, some from the commander of Fort Constitution, NH. 26 items, sleeved in ring binder: 20 manuscript general orders, 1848-52; and 6 documents relating to Fort Constitution, NH, 1861-63; condition generally strong. Vp, 1848-63

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Among the more interesting earlier orders is the appointment of a court martial at Troy, NY, with brevet Captain Ulysses S. Grant as a member, 22 March 1852. A 27 December 1848 order assigns a battalion of California troops to escort Major William H. Emery on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey to fix the new national border. Several other future generals make appearances; one order is signed by Isaac Ferdinand Quinby. From the Civil War era, a long inventory of the ordnance at Fort Constitution is dated 1863. 2 of the other Civil War documents are signed by Brigadier General James Wolfe Ripley, the Union Army's Chief of Ordnance.
Some or all of these orders were from the files of James Davidson (1801-1874), a career soldier who had reached the rank of ordnance sergeant before the Civil War. He was assigned the command of a garrison company at Fort Constitution, NH, with the rank of acting captain, from 1861 to 1863.