This collection contains documents related to Captain John T. Burgess, a Union officer serving with the 74th New York Infantry Regiment (5th Excelsior), and the formation and his command of Company D from May 1861 until May 1862. This folder contains company pledge lists, with the amount of money that each soldier wanted to donate to help fund the company. Digitization funded by a grant from the Cabot Family Charitable Trust.; Blank pages have not been scanned.
Civil War papers of Capt. John T. Burgess, Mss 1088, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, online at DigitalCollections.AmericanAncestors.org.
