Sizer family papers, 1803-1891 | Louisiana Research Collection

Title: Sizer family papers, 1803-1891

ID: LaRC/Manuscripts Collection 67

Extent: 2.0 Boxes

Predominant Dates: 1813-1849

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Scope and Contents: The Sizer family papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, financial material, and military orders of Asa B. Sizer, an officer in the New York Militia during the War of 1812. Also included is family correspondence, financial material, and the military commission of William S. Sizer, a Major in the Ohio Militia.

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Box 1: Correspondence
Box 2: Other records
Volume 1: The Army Register of the United States, Philadelphia, 112 pages, 1814
Volume 2: Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States
Volume 3: Abercrombie, John Inquiries concerning the intellectual powers, and the investigation of truth, Boston, additions and explanations by Jacob Abbott, 1845
Volume 4: Adams, F. Colburn The Story of a trooper, New York, 1865
Volume 5: Pulte, J.H. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician, Cincinnati, 1857
Volume 6: Nichols, George Ward, The story of the Great March, New York, 1865
Volume 7: McClellan, George B. Manual of Bayonet Exercises: prepared for the use of the Army of the United States, Philadelphia, printed by the order of the War Department, 1856
Volume 8: Clark, Orton S. The one-hundred and sixteenth Regiment of New York State Volunteers, Buffalo, 1868
Volume 9: Chambers, William and Robert, editors Information for the People, volume I, Philadelphia, 1854
Volume 10: Chambers, William and Robert, editors Information for the People, volume II, Philadelphia, 1854
Volume 11: Hardee, W.J. Rifle and light infantry tactics volume I, Philadelphia, 1861
Volume 12: Hardee, W.J. Rifle and light infantry tactics volume II, Philadelphia, 1861