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SUPPLYING THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND (CIVIL WAR.) Wing, Joseph K. Pair of manuscript account books of a quartermaster in the United States Army. 2 volumes. 44 and 119 pages (including some blanks). Folio, 13 x 8 inches, original 1/4 calf, moderate wear; first page torn from first volume; signed by Wing on front free endpaper. Alabama and Mississippi, January 1863 to August 1864
Joseph Knowles Wing (1809-1898) of Ohio served as Assistant Quartermaster in the United States Army, with rank of captain. By 1863, he had taken charge of the Army of the Cumberland''s Quartermaster Department at Corinth, Mississippi for Generals Rosecrans and Dodge. In 1864, he moved eastward toward the Georgia campaign as chief Quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps; some of the later accounts in these volumes are dated Athens, AL. The first volume includes invoices for supplies issued and accounts of government freight received. One page gives a daily summary of foraged corn, hay and oats received in late 1863; a day''s haul of a hundred thousand pounds of corn was not unusual. The second volume lists the purchase of horses, gives a 10-page inventory of supplies, and summarizes horses available by regiment. These volumes provide unusual insight into the logistics of a fighting army.
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