Request for Issue of Clothing & Knapsacks to 11th Regiment
Document 1799Directs issue of clothing & knapsacks to men of the 11th Regiment of Infantry.
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War department May 6. 1799
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to Major John Adlum of the Eleventh Regiment of Infantry Six Sergeants, Six Musicians and forty eight privates, Suits of Infantry Clothing the Musicians to be taken from the [strikethrough: Clothing formerly ordered for the Regiment] — also twelve Sergeants Swords and Belts and sixty Knapsacks and have the said Articles put up in three several packages an equal proportion of the articles in each — Lieut John G. Macshorter the Paymaster to be charged with the Clothing and Mr George M. Ogden the Quarter Master of the Regiment with the Swords Belts and Knapsacks. —
deduct Serjeant Sword from former order
James McHenry
[Mr John Harris]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing & knapsacks to men of the 11th Regiment of Infantry.
Date
05/06/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1799050600001
Page start
1
Note
4 COLLECTIONS: 2 with photocopy images, 2 with photograph images of the same; the 2d collection itself contains 2 copies of the same document. The latter two collections also contain address envelopes.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department

