Request for Delivery of Muskets & Ammunition to East Coast Ports
Document 1798Directs issue of 1,000 stand of arms & accoutrements and 25,000 musket cartridges each to the ports of Wilmington North Carolina, Charleston South Carolina, and Savannah Georgia.
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of 1,000 stand of arms & accoutrements and 25,000 musket cartridges each to the ports of Wilmington North Carolina, Charleston South Carolina, and Savannah Georgia.
Date
05/23/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1798052315002
Page start
1
Note
Candidacy for DEII due to exceptionally large shipments of arms and ammunition, shortly before the official date given for the beginning of the Quasi-War, July 7 1798.
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Wilmington North Carolina
Charleston South Carolina
Savannah Georgia
Philadelphia
War Office
ports
Notable items
arms
accoutrements
musket cartridges