"In obedience to your resolution without date, viz: Resolved, That the Quarter Master General be requested to report to the Senate, as soon as practicable, what arms are in his possession belonging to the state--what kind of arms, and what order said arms are in--and what divisions have received arms--and what have not received any--and if the arms and ordnance in his possession are in perfect order--and what disposition he proposes to make of the same--and any other information on the subject in his possession. I have the honor to state, in reply to the foregoing inquiries, the subjoined tables, marked (A and B.), will show what public arms are in my possession--and what divisions have received arms at different times, up to 1826."--Page 3.
Report of the Ohio Quartermaster General in response to a resolution of the Ohio Senate requesting information on the arms distributed to the 11th Division of the Ohio Militia. The report indicates that the division is due 2,118 muskets and has received the equivalence of 1,323 muskets. The report is signed by C. Niswanger, Quartermaster Gen. of Ohio.
A report in response to a resolution of the Ohio Senate, which requested information on the number of public arms, the kinds, contract price of each kind, and the value of each kind. The report includes a table, entitled "Abstract of the apportionment of public arms distributed, from 1818 to 1832, and from 1833 to 1841. It gives the number of muskets, pistols, rifles, sabres, cannons, and accoutrements distributed to each division. The prices of arms follows. The reports is signed by C. Niswanger, Quartermaster General of Ohio, and is dated February 13, 1841. It is addressed to the Ohio Senate.
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Excerpt from Report of the Quartermaster General to the Senate and General Assembly, for the Year 1866 At the close of the last year, the war having terminated, there remained on hand at the Arsenal a large quantity of ordnance and ordnance stores, received from the United States upon requisitions for arming and equipping volunteer troops, and turned into the Arsenal by tr00ps mustered out of service, to be turned over to the United States. You are referred to Statement G for a particular account of the property thus turned over. This department has been engaged during the present year in making out returns of property purchased and issued to the New Jersey volunteers, to the accounting officer of the United States Treasury, in order to obtain a settlement of the claim of this State against the United States for expenses incurred in organizing and equipping troops for the United States service. The 34th regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, on duty in Alabama, was retained in service until the present year. On its arrival at this place on the 2d of May, to be paid off and. Discharged from the United States service, it was met at the depot by the mayor of the city, accompanied by a band of music and a large body of citizens, and escorted through the streets of Trenton to the State House, where it was received by your Excellency in a speech bidding it welcome home and thanking it in the name of the people of New Jersey for the honorable, faithful and important services it had rendered to the State and nation, and tendering to it the hospitality of the State. On the day following it was escorted to Bechtel Hall, where the men were given a sumptuous dinner, at which congratula tory speeches were made in commendation of their meritorious and arduous services in behalf the Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
