Signed by Henry Stanton, Chief Quartermaster General, U.S.A.; a list of necessary articles requested by named recruiting officers at various locations- each item listed with quantity noted. Supplying army recruits for Mexican War service.
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1847 Estimate of Clothing & Equipage Requested of the Recruiting Service. The document, dated February 8, 1847, began as a blank sheet of paper with the lines scribed out with red ink, and finished in manuscript. It lists the various recruiting stations at Frederick, Md, Philadelphia, Utica, NY, New York City, Worcester, Mass, and Schenectady, NY.
The clothing issued listed here are probably not that of the new 1847 Uniform Regulations, but from some 7 years earlier, the style worn during the Mexican War. Note the small symbols in the “Remarks” section, referring to size or patterns being issued.
Signed by Henry Stanton, Assistant Quartermaster General, at Washington, D.C.
Henry Stanton, (1796 – 1856). A career army officer, born in Vermont. Began his military career as a lieutenant of light artillery in June of 1813, and was appointed assistant deputy quartermaster general that same year. He served in Florida, during the Seminole War era, and was brevetted to brigadier general for meritorious conduct in the Mexican War in 1847. He died at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, August 1, 1856.
The document is in fine condition. Has some later pencil notations
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