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[front cover] [4070 Vol. 9]
Wm M. Robbins Journal Sept. 1 - 1904 to April 15th /05
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Star and Sentinel Wednesday Morning, March 15, 1905.
WAR DEPARTMENT, GETTYSBURG NATIONAL PARK COMMISSION, Gettysburg, Pa. Sealed proposals indorsed "Bids for grading and piking Avenue on Battlefield of Gettysburg," will be received until April 20, 1905; length of piking 1794 feet, width 16 feet. Information furnished on application. Commission reserve right to reject any or all bids. JOHN P. NICHOLSON, Chairman.
WAR DEPARTMENT, GETTYSBURG NATIONAL PARK COMMISSION, Gettysburg, Pa. Sealed proposals indorsed "Bids for grading and piking Avenue on Battlefield of Gettysburg," will be received until April 20, 1905; length of piking 3258 feet, width 16 feet. Specifications furnished on application Commission reserve right to reject any or all bids. JOHN P. NICHOLSON, Chairman.
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1862 Corpl. Co. C. 4 Ala
[pen and ink drawing of head and chest of man in uniform]
(From Early Photograph.) HON. W. M. ROBBINS, of North Carolina, Now Member of the Gettysburg Military Park Commission, Gettysburg, Pa. - 1894
[newspaper clipping:] (PUBLIC RESOLUTION—NO. 7.) Joint Resolution To provide for the printing of eight thousand copies of the consolidated reports of the Gettysburg National Park Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-three to nineteen hundred and four, inclusive.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed eight thousand copies of the consolidated reports of the Gettysburg National Park Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-three to nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, of which two thousand shall be for the Senate, four thousand for the House of Representatives, one thousand for the office of the Secretary of War, and one thousand for the Gettysburg National Park Commission.
Approved, January 27, 1905.
1904 1
Thursday, September 1: At my desk before 8 o'clock a.m. - Wrote letter to Mrs. R. giving her an account of my tiresome journey hither. Sent $2.00 to "Pres Standard" at Charlo the N. C. in payt. of my subscription for the year ending July 21-1905.—
The Commission today decides upon which several tracts & parcels of land on the Battlefield are desirable & should be acquired by the N. S.; and the prices the Govt. is willing to pay for them have been offered to the several owners. We await their responses; & if extravagent terms are asked by them, we will take steps to condemn.
Sept. 2 Several matters relating to our work on the battlefield were considered today. The task is allotted to me of preparing Inscriptions for the Confed. batteries on Benner's Hill, as Tablets & Guns will soon be put in position there marking the point which each occupied. - Col. Nicholson left at 3.52 p.m. for Phila.
Sept 3 Busy today getting the points relating to the Confed. batteries on Benner's Hill, and began the Inscription for Maj: Latimer's Battalion. —Wrote some letters home to Mrs. R. & others.— We had a severe thunderstorm just after sunset.
Sept 4 Went in forenoon to Meth. Church: in evening to Pres. Church.
2 1904.
Sept. 5 One hundred & seventy-two New Jerseyans from the vicinity of Elizabeth City, N. J. are here this morning on a visit to the Battlefield.
My check for the month of August from the War Dept is received this morning $300.00. {On the 1st of this month our Commissioners} {Account is as follows: Balance $61,947.69 July 31} {Expenditures in August were $4,615.64.} {Amt remaining of our appropriation $57,332.03} {Paid Engineers & Guards in Augt. $ [gap] : paid Men $} {Circulation of money in U.S. per caput $31.16}
I was mainly engaged today in letter writing in response to business letters of several sorts Was invited to address the 3rd Pa. Artillery & the 188 P. V. Infantry at their Camp fire at G'b'g on the 29th Sept. and wrote my compliance with their wish.
Sept. 6 Busy today working on the Inscription for Latimer's Artillery Battalion and completed it & filed copy on Col. N's desk.
Sept. 7 Col. Cope, Maj. Richardson & myself drove out to the Cavalry Field & fixed the positions of the guns of the four Confed. batteries there
In the afternoon I prepared & completed the Inscription for Brown's battery of Latimer's Battalion.
Went to the prayer meeting at Pres. Church in evening. Only two men there besides the Pastor & myself.—A goodly number of ladies were there.
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Sept. 8 Farrell's Bid of $4,787.00 for Telfording the Taneytown road from the borough line of G'b'g to the southern line of the Meade Head In'rs lot is approved by the Washington official authorities.
I prepared today the Inscription for the Tablet of Carpenter's battery of Latimer's Battalion on Benner's Hill.
Sept. 9 Col. Nicholson, Col. Cope, & myself drove out in forenoon to the Cavalry Field and inspected the work going on there. The Confed. cannon are being mounted in their proper positions. I completed this afternoon the Inscription for Dement battery of Latimer's Battalion on Benner's Hill.
Sept. 10 I furnished Col. N. today a list of the 4 batteries of Maj. J. W. Latimer's artillery Battalion in the same order in which they stood from right to left in action, with the title attached to each battery, & the kind of cannon composing each of them: Also the title of the Battalion and the class & number of its guns. —Col. Nicholson left near 4 P.M. for Phila.
Sept. 11 Went in forenoon to the Presbyterian Church. Afterward went to the Bushman residence and took a view of the corpse of Mrs. B. the Mother of my good friend Sam Bushman, She was over 79 years old & was married 62 years ago this day!— Went in evening to Christ Church & heard Dr. Huber on Balaam.