An original printed and manuscript Consolidated Morning Report for the 100th Regiment New York State Volunteers, the Buffalo regiment known as the "Eagle Brigade." It is completed in ink for March 21 and March 22, 1862, while the regiment was camped at Meridian Hill in Washington, D.C. The outer panel is docketed "100th Regt. N.Y.S. Vol. / Commanded by Col. James M. Brown / Station: Meridian Hill / Date: March 21, 1862." The headquarters line identifies the regiment as part of the 1st Brigade, Casey's Division.

The large printed form gives a full snapshot of the regiment's strength just days before it left Washington for the Peninsula. Both days list 10 companies. Present for duty were 3 field officers, 4 staff officers, and 27 company officers, for 34 commissioned officers in total, along with roughly 800 enlisted men and 21 men sick. The aggregate present and absent was 887. The report also notes 196 recruits required and about 834 infantrymen present for duty and equipped. In the Remarks column the regiment's armament is recorded as 916 Enfield rifle muskets, “.58 calibre”, followed by a tally of officers and enlisted men absent with and without leave.

The report is signed by the regiment's acting adjutant at lower left and by the commanding officer at lower right.

The timing gives this document real poignancy. Within weeks the 100th New York sailed for the Peninsula with Casey's Division. On May 31, 1862, at the Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Casey's Division received the full weight of the Confederate attack. The 100th was heavily engaged and suffered serious losses, and Col. James M. Brown, whose name appears on this report, was killed in the fighting. The regiment later served in the Department of the South and took part in the assault on Fort Wagner in July 1863, before returning to Virginia for the 1864–65 campaigns around Petersburg and Richmond.

Condition: The form opens to approximately 25" wide. It shows original folds, light even toning, and some soiling along the main fold of the outer panel, with a small spot near the docket. The ink is clear and legible throughout. This is a nice, early-war regimental document from a hard-fighting New York regiment, recording a colonel who would die at Seven Pines two months later.   [cm][ph:L]

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