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Quartermaster General’s Department: Requisitions for clothing and supplies

Part of: Massachusetts Quartermaster General's Department

Requisitions for clothing and supplies, 1861-1862.

3 document boxes
Call no.: PS1.07/1082X

Scope and Content: The quartermaster general was the main provisioning agent of the militia for ordnance, munitions, equipment, tents, and uniforms.  Requisitions, prepared by unit commanders and forwarded to the quartermaster general through the adjutant general, served as the ordering instrument to obtain clothing and supplies for troops and as authorization for the quartermaster general to deliver the requested materials.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by military unit, thereunder by subseries: (1) Requisitions (2) Abstracts of quartermaster general’s property
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