| Scope and content |
Correspondence is militarily oriented generally pertains to disciplinary matters, summonses to courts martial, troop movements towards Goldsboro and back, and requests for passes or parole. Special orders primarily concern disciplinary actions with some treatment of duty details in North Carolina. Included are orders for the 132nd Regiment's regulation activities. General orders concern resolutions, rations, dress codes, assignments, summonses, and rank announcements. Other materials include telegrams originating New Bern and Bachelor's Creek, as well as circulars originating from headquarters in Virginia, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. A scrapbook contains article clippings, drawings, obituaries, and receipts. Clippings concern General Spinola and his brigade; the Battle at Bachelor's Creek (near New Bern, N.C.); news reports regarding the NIAGARA, SACRAMENTO, and STONEWALL; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Also contains a picture of General George Custer, color newspaper drawing of the Battle at Baker's Creek (also known as Champion Hill), pencil drawings of Bachelor's Creek battle and outpost, article about a gun powder explosion at a train station with a list of killed and wounded in the 132nd Regiment, and notices about enforcement of excise law. |
| Biographical note | George H. Hitchcock was an officer of the 132nd Regiment of Infantry, New York State Volunteers. While stationed in North Carolina, he resided at Camp Claassen near New Bern. In 1865, Hitchcock was commissioned in the United States Volunteers as brigadier general. By 1870, Hitchcock was the chief clerk for the Richmond County Police in Edgewater, Staten Island, N.Y. Hitchcock also served as secretary of the Staten Island Shore Railroad Company. |
