WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City: March 30, 1863.

[The Egyptian Homeguard]

I know most of us have seen this, but to give some of the newer guys some idea of the tack onhand and avaliable to the Army to use. It seems that the Secretary of War wasn't opposed to using whatever tack they had avaliable in the War effort even as late as 1863...

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City: March 30, 1863.
Maj. Gen. W. S. ROSECRANS,
Murfreesborough, Tenn.:
The Secretary of War directs me to inform you that to-day 1,400 Gallagher's carbines, 150 Sharps' carbines, 226 Smith's carbines, and 500 Burnside's carbines, in all 2,276 carbines, with accouterments complete, have been forwarded to you, directed to Nashville, Tenn. We have on hand 792 sets of horse equipments of the Ranger pattern, 496 of the Grimsley pattern, and 2,000 of the ordinary citizen's pattern, in all 3,288 sets of good, substantial, new horse equipments, very suitable for mounting infantry, which can be sent immediately, if you desire it; and in a very short time from 2,000 to 4,000 sets of the new cavalry pattern can be sent to you to mount cavalry. Shall either or both be sent? How many pistols, if any, do you want?
P. H. WATSON,
Assistant Secretary of War.
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MURFREESBOROUGH, TENN.,
March 30, 1863.

[Mike Ventura]

Re: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City: March 30, 1863.

Good post, Zack. This was back when Rosecrans was really stockpiling equipment and stores a M'boro.

The more of this I see, and the longer I do this, I come more and more to the conclusion that "we" may be too narrow in the way that we do this.

[Mississippian]

Re: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City: March 30, 1863.

So the Rangers, Grimsleys, and civilian saddles went to mounted infantry and the regular cavalry saddles went to Cavalry? That's how I'm reading this.

I think a lot of those Gallagher carbines went to Unionist Tennessee cavalry units.....I'd love to see more southern Unionist units portrayed.

Will MacDonald