11th U.S. Infantry Officer’s Ordnance Return With Memorandum on Weapons

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11th U.S. Infantry Officer’s Ordnance Return With Memorandum on Weapons.  Captain William N. Sage received this printed form return from the Ordnance Department dated November 13, 1886, while stationed at Fort Bennett, Dakota Territory. A note in red ink at the bottom referred Sage to the included memorandum “Showing how Springfield Rifles, Bayonets, Hunting-knives, Swords, &c., …should be accounted for……”,dated May 1, 1886.  These documents came in the cover from the Ordnance officer in Washington, address to the captain.

This is the first of these memorandum I have come across in all of the documents lots handled over the years from this period, certainly nothing officially mentioning Hunting knives.

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William Newton Sage of New York. Born 26 February 1828
Appointed from New York, First Lieutenant, 137th New York Volunter Infantry, 3 September 1862
Captain, 4 December 1863
Honorably mustered out 9 June 1865
Second Lieutenant, 39th United States Colored Infantry, 21 August 1865
First Lieutenant, 9 November 1865
Honorably mustered out 4 December 1865
Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant, 11th United States Infantry, 23 February 1866
Transferred to the 29th United States Infantry, 21 September 1866
Transferred to the 11th United States Infantry, 25 April 1869
Captain, 7 June 1879
Retired 19 September 1890
Major Sage died on 16 March 1906 and was buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Edith A. Brainard Sage (11 June 1834-March 1909) is buried with him. His son, William Hamden Sage, Major General, United States Army (Medal of Honor, is buried in Section 2.
Enlisted on 9/3/1862 at Binghamton, NY as a 1st Lieutenant.

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Weight .5 lbs

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