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Muster Roll, War of 1812, South Carolina

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Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War

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Rare South Carolina "War of 1812" Muster Roll For "Lt. General Wade's Regiment of Horse... for 365 Days"

c. 1812 (undated), American War of 1812 Era Muster Roll for South Carolina Lieutenant General Wades Horse Regiment, measuring 15" x 19", Fine.
This large Manuscript Muster Roll is very nicely hand-penned in dark-brown ink on watermarked, fine-laid paper. Titled, "Computation of the Pay of a Regiment of Horse Commanded by Lt. Genl. Wade as it is distributed in all its Branches to every Officer Non-Commissioned Officer and Private Man for 365 days." The manuscript document has a vertical list of officers and soldiers along the left edge (no names are written, only the categories of rank, and type of pay: "Allowance to Widows, Subsistence, Full Pay, Poundage, Hospital," etc.), and the monetary figures for each category are written in along the horizontal axis. A small (partially incorrect) pencil notation at bottom left reads: "Genl. Wade - American - c. 1780." Moderate wear, with split folds, and some early archival style repairs as reinforcement to the folds, on the blank verso. A few small holes and light toning to document. An interesting insight into the variety of payments that were allotted to American soldiers during the War of 1812 under the command of South Carolina's famous Lieutenant General Wade. Extremely rare.

Lt. General Wade: (1752 - 1835) Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolutionary War; United States Representative from South Carolina, 1795-1797 and 1803-1805; Brigadier General and Major General in the War of 1812; and was the grandfather of Confedrate Civil War General Wade Hampton III.

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