Greetings,
For whoever is interested, here is a USMC uniform and equipment bid notice, scanned into Adobe pdf, originally published in the 5 November 1864 "United States Army & Navy Journal." This is just one of several that appeared from August 1863 onward. My favorite part of this notice is the request for issue blankets to be "free from grease." As a former Marine, I can tell you things haven't changed all that much since 1864 when it comes to that.... I chopped off a little bit of the notice at the very end but it was nothing particularly important.
Please note this file is very large (1.6 megs).
Enjoy,
Mark Jaeger
For whoever is interested, here is a USMC uniform and equipment bid notice, scanned into Adobe pdf, originally published in the 5 November 1864 "United States Army & Navy Journal." This is just one of several that appeared from August 1863 onward. My favorite part of this notice is the request for issue blankets to be "free from grease." As a former Marine, I can tell you things haven't changed all that much since 1864 when it comes to that.... I chopped off a little bit of the notice at the very end but it was nothing particularly important.
Please note this file is very large (1.6 megs).
Enjoy,
Mark Jaeger
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