Materials regarding the acquisition of the Parmenter Family Papers by Alvin E. Brizzard. Materials include: correspondence from Brizzard requesting Alfred A. Parmenter's personal records from government agencies in Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts; copy of Alfred A. Parmenter's record of death from 1963; official statement of service issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Military Division; list of "Participants in Butler's New Orleans Expedition"; library notes; photocopy of pages 684-685 of an "Illustrated History of Lowell and Vicinity, Massachusetts by the Courier-Citizen Company; photocopy of pages 78-79 of "Compendium of General Orders, Adjutant General's Office, 1862, "Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866; photocopy of pages 371, 62, and 64 of "Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, by the Adjutant General, VIII"; photocopy of two pages from Regimental Histories; and notes written on index cards.
