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[List of Quartermaster's Stores Expended - May 1865]

Description: A list of the Quartermaster's stores lost or destroyed in the public service at Camp Piatt, West Virginia under the direction of Captain Hamilton K. Redway in the month of May 1865. Sixteen rope halters were worn-out and ordered to be droped by Captain Freeman A.
Date: May 1865
Creator: Redway, Hamilton K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter to the Captain, May 22, 1865]

Description: Letter to the Captain from an unidentified officer of the Co. F. 1st NY Veterans Cavalry. The letter requests a "descriptive list" and a "clothing account" from the Captain, and outlines instructions for contacting the unidentified officer if he is in China.
Date: May 22, 1865
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Instructions for Ordnance Officers and Acting Ordnance Officers at Headquarters of Departments, Armies, Divisions, Brigades, or Districts.

Description: Circular from the War Department containing "General Orders No. 193" to perfect organizing the services of the Ordnance Department, as connected with Armies in the field and the Military Departments, and at the same time securing for that Department the services of a body efficient officers, trained to its special duties. The document includes 10 orders sent by Secretary of War E. D. Townsend as well as the specific orders of George D. Ramsay to complete the orders of Townsend. Two forms are p… more
Date: May 23, 1864
Creator: Ramsay, George D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from J. S. Platner, May 23, 1865]

Description: Members of the Co. F Cavalry,appeal to the administrators of justice on behalf of George Haskill Bugler of Co. F and others of same company. The company has been maliciously and brutally beaten by Thomas Gillie Commissary Sergent of Co. F. unprovoked and without cause. Thomas Gillie is a drinking man and has several times returned from Piatt with whores for the company beastly drunk. Often times so drunk that he has been unable to ride his horse and has been brought back to camp in the wagon wi… more
Date: May 23, 1865
Creator: Platner, J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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