Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 89

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW JERSEY.) Archive of pay and recruitment books for Newark troops. 6 volumes, various sizes, paginations, and conditions, but each roughly 12 x 9 inches and 100 pages. Newark, NJ, 1861-64
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Remarkable documentation of the Civil War soldiers of Newark, filled with lists of soldiers, their addresses, and signatures of their wives and mothers.
During the Civil War, soldiers in the New Jersey state regiments who left wives or widowed mothers at home were allotted an additional $6.00 per month. The money for the families of Newark soldiers went to Mayor Moses Bigelow, who made payments to the designated family members from his office. The first four volumes in this lot are receipt books for these allotments. The entries for each month are arranged alphabetically within each company. Each entry gives the name of the soldier, the signature of his beneficiary, and their Newark address. Includes: 1st Regiment for June, July, and August, 1861 1st through 6th Regiments and Hudson County Artillery for October 1861 7th and 8th Regiments and Beam's Artillery for October 1861 7th, 8th and 9th Regiments and Beam's Battery for December 1861.
One additional volume is a list of new recruits mustered in Newark, loosely organized by regiment, and giving the soldier's name, address, and number of dependents ("Mother" or "Wife + 3 children"). The entries are undated, but the soldiers listed here mustered from 19 August 1861 through 30 April 1862. Most of the soldiers are mustered into the 5th, 8th, and 9th New Jersey infantry, but many other regiments are represented, including a few out-of-state units such as the President's Guard, which defended Washington.
The final volume consists of simple pay lists of soldiers in the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, and the 33rd, 35th, and 37th New Jersey Infantry. The lists are undated, but were apparently all compiled at the same time, and the 37th was a three-month regiment active only in mid-1864.