ADJUTANT GENERAL:

An Inventory of Its Stees (Charles) Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

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	Creator:	Minnesota. Office of the Adjutant General.
	Title:	Stees (Charles) Records.
	Dates:	1862-1867 (bulk 1862-1865).
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Captain Charles Stees, Adjutant for the 6th Regiment, Company G, compiled and maintained these records in the performance of his duties. Documenting such topics as enlistment, mustering, illness and death, desertion, ordnance, pay, equipment, clothing, recruitment, and the company's movements. There are also materials regarding Stees' own service.
	Quantity:	1.4 cubic feet (1 partial box and 5 oversize folders in 2 map drawers).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Office of the Adjutant General. Stees (Charles) Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession number: None

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Catalog ID number: 008263151

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location
114.E.2.7B	Deaths in company, 1864-1865.
		Arranged in alphabetical order by name.
		Reports of deaths, lists of personal effects, and correspondence with families for William H. Abbott, Frank Brawley, George B. Crisswell (includes certificate for pension), John Dries, Gotzian Dumers, William Farnsworth, Morgan Haus, A.C. Helmkamp, John E. Horne, Ole Goodmann, Charles Kressin, John McInnes, George Mead, Louis Middlebrook (includes certificate for pension), Peter Molitor, Theodore Moonan, John H. Myrick, Gaspard Prudhomme, John Smith, Valentine Stoltz, Louis Watters (includes certificate for pension).


		Enlistment papers, 1862-1864 (bulk 1862).
			Arranged in alphabetical order by name.
			Enlistment papers for men recruited into the 9th Regiment, but who served in Company G of the 6th Regiment. Missing papers for Henry L. Carver, Frederic Norwood, and Albert Colgrave.


		Miscellaneous, 1862-1865.
			Records concerning Henry McLean, a deserter from the Company, with published results of his court martial and discharge; Stees’ special orders for travel, recruiting, and taking troops from Fort Snelling to St. Louis; information regarding company savings accounts after discharge; list of subscribers to purchase a presentation sword; mess account; how to see through a brick wall instructions; and general correspondence.


		Newspaper clippings, 1862.
			Account of a Dakota scalp display in the window of a St. Paul furniture store owned by Stees’ brother and reaction to the display.


		Ordnance, 1862-1865.
			Invoices, receipts and letters concerning reports, and official regulations detailing information required in reports.


		Pay for company, 1864-1865.
			Information about transportation, adding/removing soldiers from the payroll because of illness, transfer or discharge, and requests for descriptive rolls. Includes records concerning Stees’ request for leave because of illness.


		Quartermaster stores, clothing and camp equipage, 1864-1867.
			Special Order No. 12 announcing a Board of Survey at Camp Crooks (June 11, 1864), sample forms, receipts for submitted reports, and instructions for completing future reports.


		Special Orders No. 97 records, 1862-1863.
			Stees was in charge of supplies at the Birch Coulee battle, through the period after the Wood Lake battle, and in preparation for General Sibley’s expedition into the Dakota Territory in 1863. Includes orders, ordnance and equipage reports, and copies of receipts for equipment that he received at these sites and at Camp Release (referred to as Camp Relief).


Location	Folder
102.A Drawer 15	1	Muster rolls, 1862-August 1865.
			Muster in and muster out rolls, and payrolls. Information recorded includes soldier’s rank, date recruited, service assignment and/or condition following the Wood Lake battle, as well as the amount paid to each member of the company, with notations about sickness, absence, bounty payments, charges for lost equipment, and other descriptive information. Included are the roll of October 1, 1862, made after the Wood Lake battle when the unit became part of the U.S. Army under Colonel William Crooks’ command; a June 1864 allotment roll containing instructions for those soldiers who had pay sent home; the company’s 1865 final muster-out roll; and Stees’ August 18, 1965 pay voucher showing pay calculations for clothing and subsistence and pay for his African American servant, John Harris.
			Also included in the folder is the front page of the October 3, 1862 Saint Paul Tri-Weekly Press listing captives found at Camp Release, and wounded soldiers in the Fort Ridgely hospital on September 24, 1862.


Location	Folder
102.A Drawer 15	2	Changes to roster, muster and descriptive rolls, 1862-1865.
			Rolls were prepared for several different purposes, including providing necessary information about status and pay to the commander of the new company and reporting stragglers or deserters. Information recorded is similar to that in the regular muster rolls, such as occupation prior to enlistment, date, where and who enlisted the person, and for what term.


Location	Folder
102.A Drawer 16	1	Ordnance and ordnance stores reports, 1863-1865.
			Arranged in chronological order.
			Includes Stees’ April 4, 1863 first report containing an inventory and hand-written notes, and quarterly reports of the status of the company’s ordnance supplies, with supporting documents such abstracts of expenditures, inventory, and inspection reports.


Location	Folder
102.A Drawer 16	2	Quartermaster stores, clothing, camp and garrison equipage reports, September 1862-June 1864.
			Arranged in chronological order.
			Quarterly reports on the status of supplies, including vouchers and reports on received supplies and receipted lists of those assigned to members of the company. The company moved from Madelia, Minnesota to Helena, Arkansas between the May and June 1864 reports. When preprinted forms were not available, Stees created hand-written ones, including the government-assigned number.


Location	Folder
102.A Drawer 16	3	Quartermaster stores, clothing, camp and garrison equipage reports, October 1863-August 1865.
			Monthly reports to Washington containing the same information as the quarterly reports described above.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Dakota Indians -- Minnesota -- Wars, 1862-1865.; Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1862-1865.; Soldiers -- Minnesota -- Registers.

Persons:: Stees, Charles J.

Organizations:: United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 6th (1862-1865). Company G.

Places:: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

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