The Civil War government was limited to eight departments: State, Treasury, War, Navy, Attorney General, Interior, Post Office and Agriculture. ... Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs.

Meigs was, after all, only the quartermaster general of the U.S. Army from the outbreak of the Civil War until his retirement in 1882. Still, the fighting end of war tends to go badly unless the ...

Robert O'Harrow talked about his book on Montgomery Meigs, Union quartermaster general during the Civil War. Meigs was responsible for supplying Union armies in the field but also developed ...

Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. ... The Army’s 1858 Quartermaster Manual made no reference to coffee — and hardly mentioned rations — but ...

Landscapers were blown away when they found a possible Civil War cannonball while working in the yard of a Virginia home. WHSV 3 “And as soon as I saw that I thought ‘oh my God this is a ...

During the Civil War outbreak, these particular lots belonged to a Quartermaster for the Confederate States Army, Absalom P. Rowe. The lot was a major Civil War-era landscape.

Scythes said the collection is unique for Civil War-era letters because all of them are written to one person from 15 soldiers and a quartermaster at a military hospital.

LEONARDTOWN, Md. — St. Mary’s County Government’s Museum Division will host a two-day event on April 26-27, 2025, to honor the 87 lives lost in the Black Diamond disaster during the Civil War.

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ground it is today.

Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, ... Quartermaster Sergeant > Union wage: $21 a month > Confederate wage: $21 a month [in-text-ad] Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons.

On Thursday 6 March 1924, the Irish Free State was plunged into yet another crisis when a group of army officers, angry at being demobilised after the Civil War, threatened mutiny if their demands ...