- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter [with financial account], Wayne County, Georgia to William Schley, Governor [of Georgia], Milledgevill[e], Georgia / Major Joseph Manning
- Creator:
- Manning, Joseph
- Date of Original:
- 1835/1842
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Warfare
Georgia. Militia--Appropriations and expenditures
Seminole Indians--Warfare
Military supplies
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- official reports
accounts - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This undated report to William Schley, Governor of Georgia (1835-1837), from Major Joseph Manning of the Seventh Battalion of the Georgia Militia lists the militia expenditures for food, horses, and other provisions for thirty-eight mounted men. The soldiers fought for five days in Waresboro, Georgia against the Creek and Seminole Indians in an action probably associated with the Second Seminole War (1835-1842).
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc546
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc546
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc546#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc546/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 50, folder 02, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Georgia
Wayne County
To the Honourable [Honorable] Governor of Georgia
By Order of Colonel Hilliard aid de Camp for A Draft for fifty Mounted Men out of the Seventh Batalion [Battalion] of Georgia Militia [deleted text: in the ] Who Marched on the
fourteenth Day of September ultomo [ultimo] unto Waresboro Ware County to aid in repeling [repelling] the Hostile incursions of the Creeks and Seminole Indians against the people of this State
Annexed you have A Correct and true return of the Number of and Expence [Expense] of the Mounted and foot Militia for five Days provisions to March to Waresboro and Back again
To thirty Eight Mounted Men
To Corn for their Horses $47.50
To fodder for Said Horses $19.11
Provisions for the Soldiers $62.50
To ferriage for Said Soldiers $7.~~
amount $135.50
This is A true Statement of the Ammount [Amount] of the provisions for the fifty Drafted Men and for the pay for the use of our Horses We leave that to your Excellency to decide upon
[Signed] Joseph Manning Major of the Seventh Battalion of Georgia Militia
Page: [2]
To his Excellency the Governor William Schley Milledgevill Georgia
Wayne Couty [County]
Expense of Militia
Letter
Majr. Jos [Major Joseph] . Manning
[unclear text: Mil Mis [Military Miscellaneous] ]