This rare book contains not only complete specifications but
detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and
equipment issued. It is a valuable reference for articles used
during the 1870s and 1880s, the period of the Indian wars.
For much of the nineteenth century, the production of military
clothing and equipment was geared to national emergencies. During
the Mexican and Civil wars, the hardpressed Quartermaster
Department was forced to rely on civilian and, later, European
suppliers. A contract system too often resulted in profiteering,
inferior goods, and administrative confusion. By 1887 reforms in
the system were accompanied by strict specifications for materiel,
which were published by the War Department in 1889 and distributed
to fewer than sixty officers in the Quartermaster Department.
Never before reprinted, this rare book contains not only
complete specifications but detailed line drawings of virtually
every item of uniform and equipment issued, from mosquito bars and
tent stoves to overalls for mounted men and uniform coat buttons
("the burnishing to be done in the best manner known to the
trade"). This valuable reference for articles used by the army
during the period of the Indian wars will be of special interest to
collectors, historians, archaeologists, curators, and antique
dealers.
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