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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.