[WAR OF 1812] [ORDERLY BOOK] .

Activity of Captain James Charlton's company, 12th United States Infantry,as recorded in the company's manuscript orderly book, September 1813 - May1815.

The 12th United States Infantry, stationed near Buffalo, New York, during most of the period covered by this orderly book, was commanded by Major Willoughby Morgan and was included in the brigade led by Lt. Col. Duncan L. Clinch (subsequently a hero of the 1830s Seminole War in Florida); it participated in many of the operations along Lake Ontario, from Buffalo to Sackets Harbor. Capt. Charlton's company was recruited primarily from the back country of Virginia (43 soldiers), Pennsylvania (6), Maryland (4), and North Carolina (11); against the name of each soldier is recorded his home county, date and term of enlistment, enlisting officer, occupation, age, height, hair and eye color, complexion, and build. Individual entries made for each soldier record types of equipment, including clothes, arms, and "accoutrements," that were issued, with dates of issuance. Four pages record abstracts of morning report roll calls during a November - December, 1813, encampment at Sackets Harbor. The general orders include records of promotions, leave, transfers, and other daily activities in the unit, along with extensive records of courts martial and instructions for conduct in various situations, all as issued through various adjutant general staff through the command structure. Folio. 56 leaves, entries both sides, recording muster rolls, returns, and morning reports for the company; 47 leaves, entries both sides, recording regimental, brigade, and divisional general orders for the company. The two sections are organized dos-a-dos, each to be read from one cover to the middle of the volume. Contemporary boards, rebacked with cheap leather (scuffed), new endpapers; early leaves in each section rubbed and brittle, the text difficult to read. The rest of the text quite legible, one leaf loose, one with its lower corner torn away.

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