Miscellaneous papers and documents, many pertaining to General Edward Augustus Wild.)

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CAGE B.R. BOX 973.4 B88

Organized in 16 folders stored in a box (26 x 32 cm.)

Original documents are the gift of Mrs. Edward Augustus Wild.

71 items.

Folder 1 (1 item) By his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, a proclamation for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. August 12, 1861 -- Folder 2 (6 items) Constitutional Union Club minutes, 1860 -- Folder 3 (3 items) Letters sent to General Edward Augustus Wild -- Folder 4 (3 items) Letters sent by General Edward Augustus Wild -- Folder 5 (5 items) Miscellaneous letters -- Folder 6 (4 items) Volunteer militia lists and "The fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Colored" an address before the Brookline Historical Society, May 28, 1914 -- Folder 7 (12 items) Reports of meetings of Brookline Citizen's Committee -- Folder 8 (3 items) 1) Diploma of Edward A. Wild, M.D. from the Massachusetts Society of Homeopathic Medicine, June 25, 1856. 2) Diploma from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, 1846. 3) Certificate from Massachusetts Medical Society, 1850 -- Folder 9 (1 item) Passport of Edward A. Wild issued June 13, 1855 -- Folder 10 (8 items) Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 3 letters, May 18, 1861; Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. General Orders, no.12, May 22, 1861; An invitation to a re-union of officers of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia to take place in a Grand State Military Ball at the Boston Theatre on March 5, 1886; Newspaper clipping, Brookline Cadets observe Washington's birthday, n. d.; Copy of Enlistment Roll. Copy of a Roll of Men enlisted in the towns of West Roxbury and Brookline and vicinity, in the _____ Division, Massachusetts Militia, on the petition of Edward A. Wild and others; Commonwealth of Massachusetts. General Order, No. 8. "For the purpose of increasing the numbers and promoting the efficiency of the Volunteer Militia.." -- Folder 11 (14 items) Brookline Drill Club papers, 1858 and 1861 -- Folder 12 (1 item) Letter from librarian to R. L. Rusk, Esq. with information regarding General E. A. Wild and his father, Dr. Charles Wild of Brookline, March 25, 1935 -- Folder 13 (3 items) Remittances of pay to soldiers of Company A under Major Wightman at Camp Hooker, Budd's Ferry, Maryland, 1861 -- Folder 14 (1 item) A letter stating that Colonel Edward A. Wild, 35th Massachusetts Volunteers has tendered his resignation due to his wounds to be effective April 24, 1863 -- Folder 15 (2 items) Certificate of Admission to the Free Masons of Malta in 1857 -- Folder 16 (4 items) Allotment rolls for clothing, etc.. 1861 and 1863.