Benjamin D. Pritchard Records
c.00324

Summary Information

Repository
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Creator
Pritchard, Benjamin D. , (Benjamin Dudley), 1835-1907
Title
Benjamin D. Pritchard records
ID
c.00324
Date [inclusive]
1862-1911
Extent
0.5 Cubic feet , 5 folders, 7 volumes on shelf
Language
English

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan".

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Scope and Contents note

This collections contains records, account books and letterbooks of Captain Benjamin D. Pritchard, Commanding Officer of Company L, 4th Michigan Cavalry, dating from August, 1862, to July, 1865. Pritchard, who later rose to the rank of brigadier general, commanded the regiment when it captured Jefferson Davis near Macon, Georgia on May 10, 1865. He was State Treasurer and Commissioner of Public Lands for the State of Michigan for the years 1879-1880, and later became President of the First National Bank of Allegan, Michigan.

The military materials include two ledger books (1862-1864), five folders of invoices and receipts, and an inventory of Company L's weapons, ammunition, clothing, horses, and track. There are also several roll call issues of supplies.

One ledger gives the daily cash account of the State Treasury Office for the period of 1879-1880 when Pritchard was State Treasurer. The rest of the papers consist of Pritchard's personal and business accounts. Two ledgers, covering the years 1882-1884, 1886-1887, and 1889, list grocery prices and dry good prices. One also includes prices and names of purchasers of heavy farm equipment and the accounts of School District #1, Allegan Township, including the fiscal report for 1893.

Also included are two circulars from the War Department concerned with ordinance stores, on General Order concerning four cases tried by a military commission in 1863, an American Express envelope with two letters, and a letter of administration of a will, issued on 1911.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections February 1967

Conrad Hall
888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu

Revision Description

  January 2011

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Legal Status

Copyright: Michigan State University Property Rights: Michigan State University

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Custodial History

Gift of D.H. Pritchard, 1962-09-04. Transferred by Michigan State University Museum

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 4th (1862-1865).

Geographic Name(s)

  • Allegan (Mich.)
  • Macon (Ga.)
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Personal Name(s)

  • Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Subject(s)

  • Agriculture -- Michigan
  • Business -- Michigan
  • Education, Primary -- Michigan
  • Education, Secondary -- Michigan
  • Expense accounts

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Collection Inventory

Folder

Military Invoices December 1862-December 1864 

 1

Military Records December 26-31, 1864 

 2

Military Records October-December 1862 

 3

Military Records September 1862 

 4

Military Records 1863-1911 

 5
Volume

Vol. 1, Account Book 1862 

 1

Vol. 2, Record Log 1863-1864 

 2

Vol. 3, Record Log 1886-1887 

 3

Vol. 4, Record Log n.d. 

 4

Vol. 5, Correspondence 1878?-1881 

 5

Vol. 6, Correspondence n.d. 

 6

Vol. 7, Daily Cash Account 1879-1880 

 7