Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies to 8th Regiment at Winchester
Document 1799Directs issue of clothing, arms, accoutrements, equipment, instruments, & tents to 8th Regiment at Winchester, VA.
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[War Office / May 14. 1799 / Clothing &c &c &c to be / the for [undecipherable] Joseph Tidball [undecipherable] / 8 Regt]
War department May 14th 1799.
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the Quarter Master General the following articles of Clothing &c &c &c for the use of the [underline: Eighth Regiment of Infantry] to be transported to Winchester in the State of Virginia to the address of Joseph Tidball; viz
forty two suits of Sergeants Clothing twenty two suits for Musicians and six hundred & forty suits for privates also six hundred and eighty Gun Worms Six hundred and eighty Bayonet Belts, Sixty four Sergeants Swords and Belts ten drums Carriages sticks and cases ten fifes with cases twenty five Horsemans tests. and seven hundred and four Knapsacks and six hundred and eighty [undecipherable: probable reading "Canteens"] [undecipherable]
James McHenry
Mr John Harris
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing, arms, accoutrements, equipment, instruments, & tents to 8th Regiment at Winchester, VA.
Date
05/14/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1799051400301
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Department
Winchester
Virginia