Document is titled across the top “QUARTERLY RETURN OF CLOTHING AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE RECEIVED AND ISSUED AT CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA IN THE QUARTER ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH 1863 BY LIEUT. HENRY D. CRANE OF CO. C 7^TH REGT. NEW JERSEY VOL INF.”

Items to be accounted for are then listed across the top showing how many were issued in that first quarter of 1863. The items listed are interesting and include the following, forage caps, Privates Uniform Coats, chevrons (sets) 1^st sgt, trousers, pairs of drawers, knit wool shirts, pairs of infantry boots, pairs of stockings, lined blouses, knit wool jackets, rubber blankets, wool blankets, knapsack straps, haversacks, canteens & straps, pairs of linen leggings, axes, ax helves, spades, pairs of drum sticks, common tents, common tent poles, pick axes, pieces of shelter tents.

All ink is bold and the entire document is filled out in period ink.

Document meas. approx. 15.50 x 10.00. It is folded once in half and then three times vertically.

The officer responsible for producing the document, 2^nd Lieutenant Henry D. Crane, enlisted as a private in Company E, 1^st New Jersey Infantry on April 30, 1861 to serve 3 months. He did guard duty south of Arlington and moved to Centerville, Virginia during the 1^st Bull Run campaign but saw no action. He was discharged at Newark, New Jersey on July 31, 1861.

Crane next enlisted as 1^st sergeant of Company C, 7^th New Jersey Volunteers on August 28, 1861. He received a commission to 2^nd lieutenant on January 16, 1862 and was promoted to 1^st lieutenant on April 13, 1863 and finally to captain of Company C on January 28, 1864. Crane was mustered out at Trenton, New Jersey on October 7, 1864.

The 7^th New Jersey served with the 3^rd and 2^nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac and saw action from the Peninsula to Petersburg losing heavily at Williamsburg and Gettysburg.  [ad][PH:L]

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