Request for Issue of Clothing, Equipment & Musical Instruments
Document 1798Directs issue of clothing, equipment and drums & fifes.
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[War Office
May 21 1798
Clothing &c to be &c Capt
Edwr Miller]
War department
May 21. 1798.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Captain Edward Miller for the Company under his Command One Serjeants Coat Vest Stock and Clasp twelve privates Coats Stocks and Clasps, thirteen Knapsacks, two Drums with Sticks and Slings and two fifes —
James McHenry
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing, equipment and drums & fifes.
Date
05/21/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1798052100001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
military storekeeper
Secretary of War
Major Lewis Tousard
Captain Edward Miller
command
Notable locations
War Department
Windmill Island
Notable items
gunpowder
cannon balls
searcher
rammer
port fire
proving
ropes
crowbar
articles for proving
guns
clothing
Sergeant's coat
vest
clasp
stock
knapsack
drums
drumsticks
sling
fifes