U.S. Army Uniforms and Equipment 1889: Specifications for Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, and Clothing and Equipage Materials
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1986
- Softcover
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Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.Rose's Books IOBA
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First Bison Book edition. 8vo. Soft cover. 375 p. Illustrated. This is a reprint of a rare 1889 report to the officers in the quartermaster's department, containing complete specifications and detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued by the Army, from mosquito bars and tent stoves to overalls and coat buttons. Of interest to collectors, historians, archaeologists, curators, and antique dealers. Very good.
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- Title
- U.S. Army Uniforms and Equipment 1889: Specifications for Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, and Clothing and Equipage Materials
- Author
- Quartermaster General of the Army
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803295529
- ISBN 13
- 9780803295520
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Military History
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 matériel, 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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