Request for Issue of Weapons & Equipment for Fort Mifflin Garrison
Document 1798Directs issue of knapsacks, haversacks, bayonet scabbards, and sergeants' swords & sword belts for the garrison at Fort Mifflin.
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[War Office
June 25. 1798
Sundries to be d'd for the use
of the Garrison at Fort Mifflin]
War department June 22. 1798
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Steele, Major [undecipherable: Commandant?] to be charged therewith fifty Musquets, fifty Haversacks, fifty [undecipherable] swords and forty [undecipherable] Bayonets, Belts and [undecipherable] & [undecipherable]
the use of the Garrison at Fort Mifflin
James McHenry
Mr. John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of knapsacks, haversacks, bayonet scabbards, and sergeants' swords & sword belts for the garrison at Fort Mifflin.
Date
06/22/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798062200000
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Notable locations
War Office
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
knapsacks
haversacks
swords
bayonet scabbards
belts