Records of the United States Army Quartermaster Dept. District of Middle Florida
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of holograph records of the United States Army Quartermaster Department, Tallahassee, Florida, dating 1865-1869. They include letters, orders and reports in a press book with cloth-covered cardboard binding. The binding is badly worn, but the records are for the most part legible and show that they were exchanged between various "Quartermaster Stations" in Florida, Mobile, New Orleans, with the arsenal at "Chatahoochie," and the United States Quartermaster General's office in Washington, D.C. There are also eleven pages of names of military men serving with the Quartermaster Corps in Florida, and a few loose inserts including the Malachi Martin papers.
Some of the reports show that "rebel convicts" were used for work in brick kilns, for "wood cut and corded on the beach and at convenient places on the bank of the Apalachicola river," and that "the P & GRR which had been run by the Quartermaster's Dept. immediately after surrender of the rebel troops in this state was turned over to the stock-holders by the United States Marshall previous to my being assigned to duty as Chief Q.M. of this Dept."
Dates
- Created: 1865-1869
- Other: Date acquired: 03/23/1972
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Extent
243.00 items
0.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Given by James W. Cortada of FSU History Department
Processing Information
Processed April 1972
- Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913 Subject Source: Local sources
- Florida State University Libraries. Manuscripts Collections Subject Source: Local sources
- United States. Army
- Title
- Records of the United States Army Quartermaster Dept. District of Middle Florida
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the FSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
116 Honors Way
PO Box 3062047
Tallahassee FL 32306-2047 US
850-644-3271
lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu