Request for Issue of Clothing & Blankets for 1st Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers at Harpers Ferry
Document 1800Directs issue of clothing & blankets to 2 companies of the 1st Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers, stationed at Harper's Ferry, VA [now WV].
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[War Office,
May 9. 1800
Orders Clothes to be
had for Capt Elliott
& Freeman Company
at Harpers Ferry
&c]
War Department, May 9. 1800
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Junr Esqr Quarter
Master General for transportation to Harpers Ferry, Virginia for the Use
of Captains Elliott and Freeman's Companies of the first Regiment of Artillery
and Engineers the following articles viz —
Sixty nine Cartouche and Eagles Thirteen Sergeants Shirts
Fifty seven Hats One hundred & fifty five privates Shirts
Three Musicians Coats One hundred and fifteen Stocks
Four Sergeants Coats. One hundred and fifteen Clasps
Fifty one privates Coats — One hundred & Sixty five pairs of Shoes
(Six of them unmade of [undecipherable: probable reading largest] size) Sixty two Blankets
Four Sergeants Vests Twenty eight Knapsacks
Fifty six privates Vests Four Sergeants Knots
Eleven Sergeants Linen Overalls Two Corporals Knots.
One hundred & forty five privates do —
James McHenry
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing & blankets to 2 companies of the 1st Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers, stationed at Harper's Ferry, VA [now WV].
Date
05/09/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800050900001
Page start
1
Note
3 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one without images, and one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Captain Elliott
Captain Freeman
Artillerists and Engineers
Notable locations
War Department
Harper's Ferry
Virginia
Notable items
clothes
transportation
cockades and eagles
hats
musicians coats
sergeants coats
privates coats
sergeants vests
privates vests
linen overalls
shirts
stocks
clasps
pairs of shoes
blankets
sergeants knots
corporals knots

