1st Long Island Volunteers Company K enlistment declarations, 1863
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13497Date:
December 25 1863Image Description:
Each re-enlistment declaration contains the recruit's origin of birth, general physical chracteristic, date and location of original enlistment, and the stipulations of his enlistment in the 67th New York Infantry. These eighteen declarations were all signed on December 25, 1863. They are the 2nd enlistment declarations for each soldier. All of these soldiers originally enlisted in Brooklyn around 1861. One term of enlistment was three years. These declarations were processed at Brandy's Junction, Virginia at the end of 1863. The 67th New York Infantry was largely made up of immigrants and, as revealed in these papers, the majority were born in Ireland.Company K, Enlistment Declarations
Patrick Collins, born in Ireland
Robert Thatcher, born in England
John Purcell, born in Lowell, MA
Robert McKay, born in Scotland
Patrick Murray, born in Ireland
Lawrence Martin, born in Ireland
James Neal, born in Ireland
Miles Brysen, born in Ireland
Arthur Green, born in Ireland
John Broderick, born in Ireland
Charles Armstrong, born in Ireland
John Casey, born in Ireland
Edward Carr born, in Banger, ME
Josiah A. McCartney, born in Newburgh, NY
Thomas O'Brien, born in Ireland
Frederick Frisse, born in Hanover, Germany
John Thomas Douglas, born in Ireland
This digital record contains images that depict the entire contents of folder 5 (labeled as: "Military: Long Island Volunteers, 1st Regiment, Co. K -- Enlistment Declaration, Dec. 1863").