Thomas J. Dalton Ledger

Collection — Box: 1445, Folder: 005

Identifier: 2001.061

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Transcriptions (2 copies) of memoranda book kept by Thomas J. Dalton, a private in Company E, 8th Missouri Cavalry (CSA). Dalton’s record book consists various combinations of personal memoranda and records pertaining to Co. E, including clothing and ordnance issues, records of the men in his unit (i.e., AWOL, captured, injured), and records of goods issued and payments to individuals affiliated with camp life (e.g., laundresses, laborers). The original memoranda book was held by the late Brig. Gen. O. T. Dalton, Jr., and is now in the archives of the Western Historical Collection-University of Missouri, Rolla. The transcription is provided courtesy of the Mississippi County Historical Society.

Dates

Creation: 1863-1864

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

Dalton enlisted as a private on 20 September 1862 in Mississippi County, Missouri. He had prior service in Gen. M. Jeff Thompson’s 1st Division, Missouri State Guard. Dalton’s Co. E was attached to the battalion of Missouri Cavalry under Col. William E. Jeffers through December 1862, when the battalion was re-organized as the 8th Missouri Cavalry. Dalton was promoted to sergeant of Co. E on 24 December 1862. He is listed on all the regimental records that exist for Co. E through the end of the war. He was surrendered at Shreveport, LA, on 26 May 1865, and was paroled on 7 June 1865. Dalton died on 13 January 1917 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Mississippi County, MO. (Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, p. 967).

Extent

1 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Provenance

The original memoranda book was held by the late Brig. Gen. O. T. Dalton, Jr., and is now in the archives of the Western Historical Collection-University of Missouri, Rolla. The transcription is provided courtesy of the Mississippi County Historical Society.