This collection contains documents related to Captain John T. Burgess, a Union officer serving with the 74th New York Infantry Regiment (5th Excelsior), and the formation and his command of Company D from May 1861 until May 1862. The collection contains company muster rolls, circular on framing of [criminal] charges against military personnel, correspondence, instructions on countersign signals, general orders (number 1, 4, and 12), leave passes, meeting minutes with officer election results, company pledge lists, receipts, special orders (number 54), telegraphs, newspaper clippings from the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette listing the roster of Massachusetts volunteers for the war, and various newspaper clippings about the company's movements, battles, and soldiers. Topics include the formation and mustering of the company (recruited primarily from Cambridge, Mass.), company movements, and company provisions and uniforms. Correspondents include Horace A Bliss (Office of the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, New York); Lt Col Albert G Browne Jr (Military Secretary to Governor John A Andrew); Nelson Cross; Levi S Cushing Jr.; Surgeon-General William J Dale; Eliphalet Davis; Colonel Charles K. Graham; J A Holmes (clerk First Baptist Church of Cambridge); Division Inspector Daniel Perkins; Adjutant Alfred Post; and Brigadier General Daniel E. Sickles. The collection includes two letters sent between John E. Burgess and the State of New York Adjutant-General's Office in the Bureau of Records of the War of the Rebellion concerning Captain Burgess's service records in 1913. There is also one letter from Edward Bouvé, Compiler of War Records for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to John E. Burgess confirming receipt of the service roll of Company D by the State.