Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

G.A.R. LINDSAY POST # 11 (SPENCER COUNTY)
RECORDS, 1870-1873


Collection #
SC 2528
OM 344


Table of Contents

User Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Cataloguing Information

Processed by
Charles Latham
10 January 1996


USER INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 3 folders, 1 oversize folder

COLLECTION DATES: 1870-1873

PROVENANCE: Philip Prenzel, Nashville, TN, 14 April 1993

RESTRICTIONS: None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: See card catalog for other GAR posts

ACCESSION NUMBER: 93.0356


HISTORICAL SKETCH

Lindsay Post #11, Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, was organized in 1870 in Spencer County, possibly in Newtonville. The post had a total of twenty-eight members. Its records run through 1873.


SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection, containing three folders and one oversize folder, contains records of GAR Lindsay Post #11, from 1870 through 1873.

In Folder 1 are a tintype of an unidentified Civil War veteran, and items laid in the company roll book, mainly orders to pay.

Folder 2 contains a roll book for 1870-1873, with different sections for receipts, accounts of individual members, and disbursements.

In Folder 3 (OM 344) is an 1871 muster roll of the post, showing the military history of each of the twenty-eight members.


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

MAIN ENTRY: Grand Army of the Republic. Lindsay Post No. 11 (Spencer County, Ind.)

SUBJECT ENTRIES: Grand Army of the Republic. Lindsay Post No. 11 (Spencer County, Ind.)

Veterans--Indiana--Spencer County--Societies, etc.

Indiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.

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