Request for Issue of Uniforms, Weapons & Camp Equipment for 2d Artillerists & Engineers
Document 1799Directs issue of uniforms, weapons, & camp equipment to a company of the 2d Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers.
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War Office
April 2d 1799
Sundries to be DD the
Quarter Mr Agent )
War department April 2. 1799.
Sir
You will be pleased to deliver to the order of the Quarter Master General the following articles to be transported to Reading for the use of the Company under the Command of Lieut Memminger of the Second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers —
4 Eighteen privates Vests
4 Fifty five Haversacks ✓
4 Four Drum Heads. ✓
4 Two Horsemans Tents and poles
4 Ten privates Tents and poles
4 Six Sergeants Swords and Belts ✓
*4 One fife — ✓
Fifty five Gun Slings
4 & Thirty Bed sacks — 4 . .
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of uniforms, weapons, & camp equipment to a company of the 2d Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers.
Date
04/02/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799040200201
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
uniforms
weapons
camp equipment