6th Battery of Binghamton, N.Y. Veterans minute book

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

6th Battery of Binghamton, N. Y. Veterans Minute Book, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William & Mary

Summary

Extent:
0.25 Linear Feet
Creator:
6th Battery of Binghamton . N. Y. Veterans
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

6th Battery of Binghamton, N. Y. Veterans Minute Book, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William & Mary

Background

Scope and content:

Minute book, 1871-1911 of the 28th Brigade, Battery A, (Binghamton, N.Y.), which later became the 6th Battery (3rd and 4th Division).

Entries are for regular monthly meeting, as well as special meetings and detail resolutions, motions made, changes to bylaws and reports of the finance, entertainment and library committees. Activities included, among others, concerts, annual dances and receptions, and 4th of July celebrations.

Recorded are names of members, officers, and the deaths of members are mentioned in some of the resolutions.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, May 2009 (Accession 2009.229).
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard