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Preferred Citation

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

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, May 2009. Accession 2009.229

Scope and Contents

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 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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• New York (State)--Social life and customs
• Veterans' organizations