Summary:
Union Ordnance Lieutenant T. J. Treadwell writes Fitz-John Porter in May, 1861,
concerning the supply of round ball accouterments. He says he will be able to
equip the Seventh Regiment, stationed at Chambersburg.
Maj. F. J. PORTER,
A. A. G., Hdqrs. Dep't of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.:
FRANKFORD ARSENAL,
May 23, 1861.
SIR:
In answer to your letter of to-day I have the honor to state, for the information of the general commanding, that only two thousand two hundred and ninety-nine sets of round-ball accouterments are to be received from the Philadelphia manufacturers. I will be able to equip the Seventh Regiment, at Chambersburg, to-morrow, and the Eighth and Tenth Regiments probably early next week.
As I have no further orders for accouterments to give out, my further supply will be derived from Newark, from a contract recently made to deliver twenty thousand sets at this arsenal, dated May 15, at the rate of eight hundred or more sets per week, the first delivery to be made in ten days from date of contract. I will also receive from the Philadelphia makers eight thousand five hundred sets of elongated-ball accouterments, and will be able to equip regiments requiring these at the rate of about three thousand sets per week. I have communicated with the Newark contractor for twenty thousand, requiring him to deliver first five thousand sets of round ball accouterments, and requesting him to send here as soon as possible any of this or any other kind he may have ready. Three thousand sets of round-ball accouterments, ordered to Washington Arsenal, have delayed the supplying of the Pennsylvania regiments from this arsenal. I will fill the requisitions in the order designated in your letter as rapidly as the stores are received.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
T. J. TREADWELL,
First Lieut. of Ordnance.
Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 2, Serial No. 2, Pages 647-648, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
